diff --git a/eval/README.md b/eval/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fed048 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# CTDL xTRA × Claude — Evaluation + +Evaluation of `ctdl-xtra`'s Credential extractor against 5 WGU program pages, scored vs on-page content and WGU's published Registry records. Baseline **8.3%** field-level recall; an expanded 22-field schema on the same input reaches **90.5%**. + +**Start with [`REPORT.html`](REPORT.html)** (or `REPORT.md`) — results, method, improvement proposal, and eval design in one doc. + +## Reproduce + +```bash +cd harness && npm install +export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... +node run.mjs bs-computer-science ../wgu/bs-computer-science/page.html +# → ../wgu/bs-computer-science/extracted.json {baseline, enhanced, _meta} +``` + +## Contents + +| | | +|---|---| +| `REPORT.html` / `.md` | The write-up | +| `harness/` | Standalone runner: `run.mjs`, `xtra-prompts.mjs` (verbatim baseline), `enhanced-schema.mjs` (proposed 22-field), `simplify.mjs` | +| `wgu//` | One dir per credential: `page.html` · `page-annotated.md` · `model-input.md` · `registry.json` · `extracted.json` — see `wgu/README.md` | +| `scoring/` | 90-cell field matrix + scorecards + multi-extractor coverage | +| `code-review/` | `01-architecture.md`, `02-hypotheses.md` (10 findings, file:line), `00-open-issues.md` | +| `ctdl-reference/field-spec.md` | 30-row CTDL field checklist | diff --git a/eval/REPORT.html b/eval/REPORT.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81d7d37 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/REPORT.html @@ -0,0 +1,383 @@ +CTDL xTRA — WGU Evaluation & Improvement Proposal + + +
Evaluation · July 2026
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CTDL xTRA — where Claude can help

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Test institution: Western Governors University · Repo: CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra

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Executive summary

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We cloned and reviewed ctdl-xtra, ran its extraction design against five WGU program pages, and compared the output to what's actually on each page and to WGU's own hand-published CTDL records in the Credential Registry.

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Finding 1 · Coverage

+ 8.3% → 90.5% recall +

xTRA's Credential schema requests 4 fields. A WGU program page has evidence for 14–18 CTDL properties; WGU's Registry records populate 24–27. Cost, duration, delivery mode, admission requirements, courses, competencies, occupations, and accreditation are not attempted. An expanded 22-field schema on the same inputs lifts field-level recall from 8.3% to 90.5% — with correctly typed values (ISO 8601 durations, structured cost profiles, controlled-vocabulary enums).

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Finding 2 · Convention mismatch on name & language

+ name 5/5 · language 5/5 +

xTRA's prompt deliberately strips the degree type from credential_name ("Computer Science") and asks for language "in full" ("English"). WGU's Registry records — and the CTDL spec for ceterms:name / ceterms:inLanguage — use the full title and BCP-47 (en). This is a policy question for CE, not a model failure; xTRA's own golden test flags the stripped names as // TODO: this is not the correct credential name, which suggests the current convention wasn't fully intentional.

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Recommended first move: widen common/catalogueTypes.ts from 4 to ~22 fields, fix the credential-name prompt, and add Claude as a provider alongside OpenAI. This is a schema/prompt edit — no new architecture — and closes most of the coverage gap in one PR.

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1 · How xTRA works today

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xTRA is a two-phase system. Recipe detection uses an LLM to reverse-engineer an institution's catalog structure (page types, pagination, URL regexes) into a reusable crawl plan — this part is clever and works well. Extraction then fetches each detail page (Puppeteer + stealth), simplifies HTML to Markdown, and calls the LLM once with a per-catalogue-type prompt and JSON schema. Results export as Registry Bulk-Upload CSVs.

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LLM layer: OpenAI only (enum Provider { OpenAI } — single member). Default model gpt-5.4-mini. No system message; single user turn. Default temperature: 1. Output via forced tool-call or response_format: json_schema.

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xTRA has four separate extractors, one per CatalogueType. A page is classified into exactly one type, and only that type's schema runs. WGU degree pages classify as CREDENTIALS, so only the 4-field Credential schema applies — the 9-field Course schema is for individual course-catalog entries (a different URL surface, e.g. catalog.wgu.edu/courses/D288).

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CatalogueTypeRuns onSchema fieldsCount
Credentialdegree/cert program pages ← WGU testcredential_name, credential_description, credential_type, language4
Learning Programprogram-overview pageslearning_program_id, _name, _description3
Coursesingle-course catalog entriescourse_id, _name, _description, _prerequisites, _credits_min/max/type, _ceu_credits, _non_credit9
Competencylearning-outcome liststext, competency_framework, competency_category, language4
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Source: common/catalogueTypes.ts:194-547. The 4+3+9+4 = 20 fields are the entire extraction surface across all four types.

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Hallucination is guarded by a verbatim-substring check (reportTextInclusion) with ≤3 retries. This catches fabrication but not wrong-field routing or paraphrase.

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2 · Code-review findings

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FindingImpactEvidence
H1Schema attempts 4 credential fields; ~18 present on page●●●●●common/types.ts:222
H2Prompt strips degree type from name; contradicts own enum ("Do not list Certifications" but Certification is a valid type)●●●●catalogueTypes.ts:447-459
H3temperature: 1 default for extraction●●●openai.ts:135; issue #134
H4All non-enum fields typed string — no numbers, durations, nested profiles●●●extractEntityData.ts:258
H5Single-page extraction; sibling tuition/admissions tabs never followed●●●●exploreDuringExtraction Competencies-only
H6Verbatim-substring check misses wrong-field routing●●●issue #34
H7No CTDL schema validation before export●●csv.ts
H8LLM-generated split regex; 1000-token chunk threshold●●splitChunks.ts
H9LLM-generated URL regex for link discovery●●detectUrlRegexp.ts
H10No per-field confidence or source citation●●csv.ts
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Twelve of the repo's 46 open issues are extraction-accuracy bugs (hallucination #63, field-bleed #34, inconsistency #134, boilerplate-on-empty #249/#253).

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3 · Experiment setup & WGU results

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3.0 · Method

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Five WGU program pages spanning bachelor's, master's, healthcare, and non-degree. For each, four things are compared:

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SourceHow obtained
On-pagewgu.edu program pageSaved raw HTML, hand-annotated every fact that maps to a CTDL property (wgu/<slug>/page-annotated.md)
RegistryWGU's own published CTDL recordCredential Registry API — see below
BaselinexTRA's designxTRA's verbatim CREDENTIALS prompt + 4-field schema from common/catalogueTypes.ts:431-546, applied via Claude tool-use
Enhancedproposed design22-field CTDL-aligned schema (harness/enhanced-schema.mjs) with typed nested profiles, CTDL enums, and a CTDL-aware system message — same input, same model, one call
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Ground truth — pulling WGU's Registry records. Credential Finder (credentialfinder.org) is a JS SPA — curl/WebFetch on its detail pages returns the app shell, not data. The reliable path is the Credential Registry REST API (no auth required):

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  1. Find WGU's org CTID — GET https://credentialengineregistry.org/ce-registry/search?resource_type=organization&fts=Western+Governors+University. Response is an array of envelope objects; the CTID is at [0].envelope_ceterms_ctid → ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a.
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  2. Search WGU's credentials by name — GET .../ce-registry/search?owned_by=<org-ctid>&fts=computer+science. Each hit's CTID is .envelope_ceterms_ctid; the JSON-LD is at .decoded_resource["@graph"][0]. Filter by .envelope_ctdl_type (e.g. ceterms:BachelorOfScienceDegree) since the search also returns Collections and Learning Opportunities.
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  3. Fetch the record — GET https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/<ctid> returns the plain JSON-LD (no envelope). This is what's saved as wgu/<slug>/registry.json.
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WGU publishes ~1,500 credentials (each catalog revision gets its own CTID; the record's ceterms:alternateName carries a _YYYYMM version suffix like BSCS_202412); the newest active version of each target was selected. All five records + a field-population matrix are under wgu/ (see wgu/README.md for the per-credential file layout). Spot-checked live: re-fetching ce-8f5a2e25-… today returns the same 28-key BachelorOfScienceDegree record that's saved.

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Pipeline. Mirrors xTRA's exactly: saved HTML → simplifyHtml (cheerio: strip head/script/nav/footer, drop attrs≠href, collapse divs) → turndown → simplified Markdown → LLM tool-call. harness/simplify.mjs reproduces server/src/extraction/browser.ts:simplifiedMarkdown step-for-step, so the model sees the same input xTRA's worker would.

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Running it. cd harness && npm install && ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-... node run.mjs bs-computer-science ../wgu/bs-computer-science/page.html — writes ../wgu/<slug>/extracted.json and the exact model input to model-input.md.

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Cost (claude-opus-4-5, all 5 pages × 3 configs): ~152k tokens total. Baseline ≈ 3–8s and 5–12k input / ~200 output per page; enhanced ≈ 18–36s and 6–14k input / 1.3–2.2k output per page — roughly 3–4× the tokens for ~11× the correct fields.

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3.1 · Coverage

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PageOn-page fieldsBaseline correctEnhanced correctBaseline recallEnhanced recall
B.S. Computer Science181155.6%83.3%
MBA1621612.5%100.0%
M.S. Nursing – Education181165.6%88.9%
B.S. Accounting181165.6%88.9%
Leadership Certificate1421314.3%92.9%
Total847768.3%90.5%
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Baseline populates 4 fields on every page but only description is reliably correct (5/5); credential_name (0/5), inLanguage (0/5, wrong format), and credentialType (2/5) drag it down.

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3.2 · Baseline verdict, field × program

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Every cell is one of the 18 CTDL fields on one of the 5 pages. The four highlighted rows are the only fields xTRA's Credential schema attempts; everything below the line is a schema gap.

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CTDL fieldBS CSMBAMSN EdBS AcctCert
namewrongwrongwrongwrongwrong
description✓✓✓✓✓
credentialTypepartial✓partialpartial✓
inLanguagewrongwrongwrongwrongwrong
subjectWebpage—————
credentialStatusType—————
learningDeliveryType—————
audienceLevelType————n/a
estimatedDuration—————
creditValue—n/a———
estimatedCost—————
requires—————
teaches—————
occupationType————n/a
industryType—————
hasPart—————
accreditedBy————n/a
industryCertifications—n/a——n/a
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+correct +partial +wrong (prompt bug) +— schema gap (not attempted) +n/a (not on page) +

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3.3 · Why name and language diverge from the Registry

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The model isn't hallucinating — it's following the prompt exactly. The prompt text (common/catalogueTypes.ts:456-475, verbatim including typos):

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credential_name: name for the credential or certificate (example: "Computer Science"). Don not include the type of credential in the name. Do not confuse the category of the credential with the specific name.
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language: The language in full (example: 'English', 'Spanish', 'German', etc.)
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So the extractor returns "Computer Science" and "English" — exactly as instructed. WGU's manually-published Registry records use the full title ("Bachelor of Science, Computer Science") and BCP-47 (en).

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This is a convention decision, not a model failure. Whether xTRA should emit the full title and BCP-47 is a policy question for CE. Three data points suggest yes: (a) the Registry Minimum Data Policy defines ceterms:name as the credential's title as awarded; (b) ceterms:inLanguage is spec'd as a BCP-47 tag; (c) xTRA's own golden test ivytech.test.ts comments // TODO: this is not the correct credential name on the stripped values. If CE prefers the stripped form for a downstream reason (dedup? display?), the CSV export could emit both and let the Registry-upload step choose. Either way it's a one-line prompt edit — the point here is that the divergence is deliberate and predictable, not extraction noise.

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The credentialType partials are similar: xTRA's enum has BachelorDegree/MasterDegree but not the CTDL sub-types BachelorOfScienceDegree/MasterOfScienceDegree that WGU publishes — the model picks the closest available parent.

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3.3b · Would running xTRA's other extractors close the gap?

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xTRA runs one extractor per page. If it ran all four on the same WGU degree page, how many of the 14 not-attempted CTDL fields get covered?

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Not-attempted CTDL fieldAny extractor field maps?Fit
teachesCompetency textgood — Competency extractor already has presence-check + explore logic for outcome bullets
creditValueCourse credits_min/max/typepoor — course-level credits, not program totals
requiresCourse course_prerequisitespoor — prompt is course-prereq specific
hasPartCourse course_id/namepartial — expects one page per course
subjectWebpage, credentialStatusType, learningDeliveryType, audienceLevelType, estimatedDuration, estimatedCost, occupationType, industryType, accreditedBy, industryCertificationsnoneno field in any of the four schemas
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1 clean win, 3 poor-fit partials, 10 with no home in any extractor. Running Competency alongside Credential would recover teaches — a cheap real improvement. But 10 of 14 gap fields don't exist anywhere in catalogueTypes.ts. So "expand which extractors run" and "widen the schema" are complementary, not alternatives. The strongest version does both — see P1 and P1b below.

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3.4 · The credential_name bug — 5/5 concrete

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PageBaseline credential_nameRegistry ceterms:name
B.S. CSComputer ScienceBachelor of Science, Computer Science
MBABusiness AdministrationMaster of Business Administration
MSN – EdNursing Education (BSN to MSN)Master of Science, Nursing - Education (BSN to MSN)
B.S. AccountingAccountingBachelor of Science, Accounting
Leadership CertBusiness Leadership— (Business Leadership Certificate on page)
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3.5 · What the enhanced schema captures

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3.6 · Failure taxonomy — baseline, 84 on-page cells

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Denominator = the 84 field×page cells where the field has evidence on the wgu.edu page. (The full grid is 5×18 = 90 cells; 6 are n/a — the field isn't on that page — and are excluded here.)

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BucketCountof 84Example
Not-attempted (schema gap)6476%estimatedCost on any page — no cost field in schema
Wrong-format (prompt bug)1012%name = "Computer Science"; inLanguage = "English"
Partial (enum too coarse)34%credentialType = BachelorDegree; Registry has BachelorOfScienceDegree
Correct78%description (5/5), credentialType (2/5)
Hallucinated / on-page-but-missed0——
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Of the 77 baseline misses, 64 (83%) are schema gaps — the model was never asked. The other 13 are prompt/enum defects that a text edit fixes. Zero hallucinations, zero cases where the model was asked and the fact was on the page but it failed to find it — this isn't a model-capability problem.

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4 · Improvement proposal

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P1 · Widen the extraction schema effort S

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Extend CredentialStructuredData and LearningProgramStructuredData in common/catalogueTypes.ts to ~22 CTDL-aligned fields with proper types: estimatedDuration (DurationProfile), estimatedCost (CostProfile[]), requires (ConditionProfile), learningDeliveryType/audienceLevelType (enums), teaches, occupationType, industryType, hasPart, accreditedBy, creditValue. Add matching columns to csv.ts. Closes ~78% of the gap — every "not-attempted" cell.

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P1b · Run Competency as a companion extractor on Credential pages effort XS

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Enable exploreDuringExtraction on the Credential type (or add a companionExtractors: [COMPETENCIES] field to CatalogueTypeDefinition) so program pages also get the Competency pass. Recovers teaches using logic that already exists and is tested. Complementary to P1.

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P2 · Align name/language conventions with Registry effort XS

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If CE agrees the Registry convention is the target: emit full title for credential_name, BCP-47 for language, and add the missing degree sub-types to the credential_type enum. Resolve the "Do not list Certifications" contradiction and "Ignore stackable certificates" (or document why). Add 2–3 few-shot examples from real Registry records. Set temperature: 0. Aligns all 5 name/language values with WGU's published records; addresses open issue #134.

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P3 · Add Claude as a provider effort S

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Provider enum has one member. Add Anthropic and a server/src/anthropic.ts sibling to openai.ts (~200 lines mirroring the existing wrapper via Claude tool-use). Makes P1 and P4 practical: the wider schema and multi-page context both benefit from Claude's larger context window and instruction-following on structured output.

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P4 · Multi-page gather step effort M

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Generalize exploreDuringExtraction: before extraction, follow same-origin links whose anchor text matches tuition / admission / requirements / courses / careers, concatenate their simplified markdown, extract once. Captures the ~20% of fields that live on sibling tabs at institutions less consolidated than WGU.

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P5 · Field-level validator pass effort S

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After extraction, a second cheap-model call scores each field 0–1 against its CTDL definition and cites the source sentence. Emit {value, confidence, sourceQuote}. Replaces substring-only reportTextInclusion. Addresses open issues #34, #63, #249/#253.

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P6 · Emit CTDL JSON-LD alongside CSV effort S

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Wrap each record in {"@context": "https://credreg.net/ctdl/schema/context/json", "@type": "ceterms:…", …} and validate against CTDL_Json_Validation_Schema before export.

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Suggested pilot

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One PR covering P1 + P1b + P2 + P3, benchmarked on the 14 institutions already in server/tests/extractions/credentials/ plus WGU. Metric: field-level recall/precision against Registry records. Estimate: 2–3 engineering days.

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Beyond the pilot: a benchmark CE can hill-climb against

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The current test suite fetches live URLs and asserts a handful of fields with expect.like(...); several assertions are commented out as [volatile]. A robust eval turns "we added fields" into "recall 8% → 90% on N pages" — a number CE can publish and A/B model choices against.

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Golden set = the Registry itself. The truth data already exists: any credential an institution has manually published to the Registry is a labelled (webpage → CTDL record) pair. Pull ~120 of these — CE is best placed to nominate which publishers' records are highest quality and most current — save each ceterms:subjectWebpage as an HTML fixture, and store the Registry JSON-LD alongside it. Stratify by catalogue vendor (Acalog, CourseLeaf, Kuali, Coursedog, custom) since page structure clusters by vendor. The 35 institutions already in server/tests/extractions/ plus WGU/SNHU/ASU are a natural start. No hand-labelling needed except where the Registry record is thin.

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Why a judge (and only where needed). Scoring is per field:

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CI wiring. pnpm test:eval runs the frozen set, writes eval-results/<git-sha>.csv, and fails the build on >2pp recall regression. A scripts/compare-eval.ts diffs two result CSVs and prints exactly which field×page cells moved — the thing you actually look at when a PR changes the number.

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5 · Assumptions & limitations

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Appendix — supporting materials

+ diff --git a/eval/REPORT.md b/eval/REPORT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f807f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/REPORT.md @@ -0,0 +1,254 @@ +# CTDL xTRA — Evaluation & Improvement Proposal + +_Prepared for Credential Engine · July 2026_ +_Test institution: Western Governors University (wgu.edu)_ + +--- + +## Executive summary + +We cloned and reviewed [`ctdl-xtra`](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra), ran its extraction design against five WGU program pages, and compared the output to (a) what's actually on each page and (b) WGU's own hand-published CTDL records in the Credential Registry. + +**The dominant gap is coverage, not accuracy.** xTRA's Credential extractor requests **4 fields** (name, description, type, language). A typical WGU program page contains evidence for **15–18 CTDL properties**, and WGU's Registry records populate **24–27**. The fields xTRA doesn't attempt — cost, duration, delivery mode, admission requirements, courses, competencies, occupations, accreditation — are precisely the ones that make CTDL records useful for search and comparison. + +On the fields it *does* attempt, xTRA has a self-inflicted accuracy problem: the prompt instructs the model to strip the degree type from `credential_name` ("Don not include the type of credential in the name"), so "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science" comes back as "Computer Science" — which contradicts CTDL practice and the tool's own golden tests (`ivytech.test.ts` has `// TODO: this is not the correct credential name` on multiple assertions). + +An expanded 22-field CTDL-aligned schema, run through Claude with a single-page pass and no other architectural changes, lifts recall from **8.3% to 90.5%** on the same inputs — with correctly typed values (ISO 8601 durations, structured cost profiles, controlled-vocabulary enums). See §3 for the field-by-field matrix. + +A second prompt bug: `language` is prompted as "The language in full (example: 'English')" — but CTDL `ceterms:inLanguage` requires a BCP-47 tag (`en`). All 5 baseline values fail Registry validation on this too. + +**Recommended first move:** widen `common/catalogueTypes.ts` from 4 to ~22 fields and fix the credential-name prompt. This is a schema/prompt edit — no new architecture — and closes most of the coverage gap in one PR. + +--- + +## 1. How xTRA works today + +xTRA is a two-phase system: + +1. **Recipe detection.** Given an institution URL, an LLM reverse-engineers the catalog structure — page types, pagination pattern, URL regexes for detail pages — into a reusable `RecipeConfiguration` (Postgres JSONB). This is clever and works well; not the focus here. +2. **Extraction.** A BullMQ worker fetches each detail page (Puppeteer + stealth), simplifies HTML to Markdown (cheerio + turndown), and calls the LLM once with a per-catalogue-type prompt + JSON schema. Output rows are exported as Registry Bulk-Upload CSVs. + +**LLM layer:** OpenAI only (`enum Provider { OpenAI }` — single member). Default model `gpt-5.4-mini`; wrapper supports `gpt-4o` through `gpt-5.4`. Two output modes: forced tool-call (Courses, Programs) or `response_format: json_schema` (Credentials, Competencies). No system message; everything is one user turn. Temperature defaults to `1`. + +**Field inventory** (`common/catalogueTypes.ts` + `common/types.ts`): + +| Entity | Fields extracted | Not attempted | +|---|---|---| +| Credential | name, description, type (38-value enum), language | cost, duration, delivery, requirements, competencies, courses, occupations, industry, accreditation, keywords, credit hours, subject webpage, status, audience level, … | +| Learning Program | id, name, description | *(same)* | +| Course | id, name, description, prereqs, credits (min/max/type), CEU, non-credit flag | delivery, outcomes, cost, … | +| Competency | text, framework, category, language | — | + +**Hallucination guard:** `reportTextInclusion` — checks each extracted field appears verbatim (lowercased alphanumeric) in the source markdown. If a required field fails, retry ≤3× with the bad output as a negative example. This catches fabrication but not wrong-field routing (issue #34) or paraphrase. + +**Output:** CSV only. Several columns hard-coded (`Language="English"`, `Life Cycle Status="Active"`). Credential `External Identifier` is a fresh `randomUUID()` per run — no stable key. + +Full architecture notes: [`code-review/01-architecture.md`](code-review/01-architecture.md). + +--- + +## 2. Code-review findings + +Ranked hypotheses from a read of the extraction path (each tested against WGU in §3): + +| # | Finding | Impact | Evidence in code | +|---|---|---|---| +| **H1** | Schema attempts 4 credential fields; ~18 present on page | ★★★★★ | `common/types.ts:222-227`, `catalogueTypes.ts:456-476` | +| **H2** | Prompt tells model to strip degree type from name; contradicts own enum ("Do not list Certifications" but `Certification` is a valid `credential_type`) | ★★★★ | `catalogueTypes.ts:447-459`; own test `ivytech.test.ts:19,28` flags wrong names | +| **H3** | `temperature: 1` default for extraction | ★★★ | `openai.ts:135`; maps to open issue #134 (inconsistency) | +| **H4** | All non-enum fields typed `string` — no numbers, durations, nested profiles | ★★★ | `extractEntityData.ts:258-262` | +| **H5** | Single-page extraction; sibling tuition/admissions tabs never followed | ★★★★ | `exploreDuringExtraction` only enabled for Competencies | +| **H6** | Verbatim-substring check misses wrong-field routing | ★★★ | `extractAndVerifyEntityData.ts:reportTextInclusion`; open issue #34 | +| **H7** | No CTDL schema validation before export | ★★ | `csv.ts` — no check against Min-Data Policy | +| **H8** | LLM-generated split regex for chunking; 1000-token threshold is a gpt-4-era artifact | ★★ | `splitChunks.ts:10-73` | +| **H9** | LLM-generated URL regex for link discovery — brittle | ★★ | `detectUrlRegexp.ts` (256-line prompt) | +| **H10** | No per-field confidence or source citation in output | ★★ | `csv.ts` — only aggregate `Text Verification Average` | + +Plus engineering hygiene: `assertNumber` regex rejects floats (`openai.ts:426`); `detectChunkSplitRegexp` logs wrong callSite; offset pagination is a `TODO` returning `[]`; `@ts-ignore` in the hot path. + +Twelve of xTRA's 46 open issues are extraction-accuracy bugs (hallucination #63, field-bleed #34, inconsistency #134, boilerplate-on-empty #249/#253, dedup #262). Full list: [`code-review/00-open-issues.md`](code-review/00-open-issues.md). + +--- + +## 3. WGU results + +**Test set:** 5 program pages spanning bachelor's, master's, healthcare, and non-degree. + +| Page | Source md | Registry CTID | +|---|---:|---| +| B.S. Computer Science | 44 KB | `ce-8f5a2e25-…` | +| MBA | 27 KB | `ce-6977cef9-…` | +| M.S. Nursing – Education | 38 KB | `ce-6f236de1-…` | +| B.S. Accounting | 50 KB | `ce-b75970c9-…` | +| Leadership Certificate | 13 KB | (n/a — different cert in Registry) | + +**Method:** each page's HTML was simplified to Markdown using xTRA's own `simplifyHtml`+`turndown` pipeline, then extracted twice: once with xTRA's verbatim 4-field prompt/schema (**baseline**), once with a 22-field CTDL-aligned schema and a proper system message (**enhanced**). Both runs used Claude; see Assumptions. + +### 3.1 Coverage — baseline vs enhanced + +| Page | On-page fields | Baseline correct | Enhanced correct | Baseline recall | Enhanced recall | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| B.S. Computer Science | 18 | 1 | 15 | 5.6% | 83.3% | +| MBA | 16 | 2 | 16 | 12.5% | 100.0% | +| M.S. Nursing – Education | 18 | 1 | 16 | 5.6% | 88.9% | +| B.S. Accounting | 18 | 1 | 16 | 5.6% | 88.9% | +| Leadership Certificate | 14 | 2 | 13 | 14.3% | 92.9% | +| **Total** | **84** | **7** | **76** | **8.3%** | **90.5%** | + +Baseline populates 4 fields on every page but only `description` is reliably correct (5/5); `credential_name` (0/5), `inLanguage` (0/5 — wrong format), and `credentialType` (2/5 correct, 3/5 parent-type-not-subtype) drag it down. Detailed field-by-field: [`scoring/field-matrix.csv`](scoring/field-matrix.csv). + +### 3.2 Accuracy — the `credential_name` bug (H2 confirmed) + +All 5 baseline names strip the degree type per the prompt's instruction: + +| Page | Baseline `credential_name` | Registry `ceterms:name` | Enhanced `name` | +|---|---|---|---| +| B.S. CS | `Computer Science` | Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | +| MBA | `Business Administration` | Master of Business Administration | Master of Business Administration | +| MSN | `Nursing Education (BSN to MSN)` | Master of Science, Nursing - Education (BSN to MSN) | Master of Science in Nursing – Education (BSN to MSN) | +| B.S. Accounting | `Accounting` | Bachelor of Science, Accounting | Bachelor of Science in Accounting | +| Leadership Cert | `Business Leadership` | — | Business Leadership Certificate | + +The baseline value would fail Registry validation (name is a required field and must match the credential as awarded) and produces the exact behavior the tool's own tests already flag as wrong. + +### 3.3 What enhanced extraction captures that baseline can't + +Concrete examples from the runs: + +- **B.S. Computer Science** — 37 courses listed by name in `hasPart`; `estimatedCost` = `[{Tuition, 4125, USD, "per 6-month term"}, {TechnologyFee, 200, USD, "per term"}]`; `accreditedBy: ["ABET"]`; `industryCertifications: ["Linux Essentials", "ITIL 4 Foundation", …]`; `occupationType: ["Software Engineer", "Software Developer", …]`. +- **MBA** — `estimatedDuration.minimumDuration = "P12M"` with source quote; `accreditedBy: ACBSP`; 11 courses; 3 cost profiles including 12-month total. +- **M.S. Nursing** — `requires.prerequisiteCredentials: ["BSN", "current unencumbered RN license"]` (the licensure gate CTDL cares most about for healthcare); CCNE accreditation with URL; note in `_extractionNotes` that this MSN does not satisfy NP "3 Ps" — a nuance a human cataloguer would want. +- **Leadership Cert** — `estimatedDuration = P4M`, 9 credits, and the extractor **flagged a pricing discrepancy on the source page** in `_extractionNotes` ($281.25 vs $562.50 installments) — a QA win the baseline can't surface. + +### 3.4 Failure taxonomy — baseline, 84 on-page cells + +The full grid is 5 pages × 18 fields = 90 cells; 6 cells are n/a (the field isn't on that page — e.g. `accreditedBy` on the Leadership Cert). The 84 on-page cells break down as: + +| Bucket | Count | of 84 | Example | +|---|---:|---:|---| +| **Not-attempted** (schema gap) | 64 | 76% | `estimatedCost` on any page — no cost field in schema | +| **Wrong-format** (prompt asks for wrong format) | 10 | 12% | `credential_name` = "Computer Science"; `language` = "English" not "en" | +| **Partial** (enum too coarse) | 3 | 4% | `credential_type` = `BachelorDegree`; Registry has `BachelorOfScienceDegree` | +| **Correct** | 7 | 8% | `description` (5/5), `credential_type` (2/5) | +| Hallucinated / on-page-but-missed | 0 | — | — | + +Of the **77 baseline misses**, 64 (83%) are schema gaps — the model was never asked. The other 13 are prompt/enum defects that a text edit fixes. Zero hallucinations, zero cases where the model was asked and the fact was on the page but it failed to find it — this isn't a model-capability problem. + +Full scorecards: [`scoring/scorecards.md`](scoring/scorecards.md). + +--- + +## 4. Improvement proposal + +Ranked by impact-per-effort. Each item names the file(s) to touch and which WGU misses it fixes. + +### P1 — Widen the extraction schema · **effort S** · closes ~78% of the gap + +Extend `CredentialStructuredData` and `LearningProgramStructuredData` in `common/types.ts` + `common/catalogueTypes.ts` to ~22 CTDL-aligned fields with proper types: `estimatedDuration` (DurationProfile), `estimatedCost` (CostProfile[]), `requires` (ConditionProfile), `learningDeliveryType`/`audienceLevelType` (enums), `teaches`, `occupationType`, `industryType`, `hasPart`, `accreditedBy`, `creditValue`. Add matching columns to `csv.ts`. The `enhanced-schema.mjs` in this evaluation is a working reference. + +*Fixes:* every "not-attempted" cell in the failure taxonomy — cost, duration, delivery, requirements, courses, occupations, accreditation on all 5 WGU pages. + +### P2 — Fix the credential prompt · **effort XS** · fixes 100% of name errors + +Remove "Don not include the type of credential in the name," the "Do not list Certifications" contradiction, and "Ignore stackable certificates." Add 2–3 few-shot examples drawn from real Registry records. Set `temperature: 0` (or Claude's default) for extraction calls. + +*Fixes:* all 5 wrong `credential_name` values; open issue #134 (inconsistency). + +### P3 — Add Claude as a provider · **effort S** + +`common/types.ts` `Provider` enum has one member. Add `Anthropic`, a `server/src/anthropic.ts` sibling to `openai.ts` (same `simpleToolCompletion`/`structuredCompletion` interface via Claude tool-use), and a `ProviderModel` entry for the Claude model. This is ~200 lines, mostly mirroring the existing wrapper. Makes P1 and P4 practical: the wider schema and multi-page context both benefit from Claude's larger context window and instruction-following on structured output. + +### P4 — Multi-page gather step · **effort M** · captures the ~20% of fields that live on sibling tabs + +WGU (and most universities) split tuition, admissions, and course lists across tabs/pages. Generalize `exploreDuringExtraction` (currently Competencies-only): before extraction, follow same-origin links whose anchor text matches a small set (tuition, cost, admission, requirements, courses, curriculum, careers), concatenate their simplified markdown into the extraction context. Claude's 200K context makes this a single call rather than N. + +*Fixes:* on institutions where cost/admissions live off the overview page (WGU's pages are unusually consolidated, so the WGU test set understates this). + +### P5 — Field-level validator pass · **effort S** + +After extraction, a second cheap-model call: "for each populated field, does the value match the CTDL definition and appear on the source? Score 0–1 and cite the source sentence." Emit `{value, confidence, sourceQuote}` per field. Replaces the substring-only `reportTextInclusion`. This is what a human reviewer does today by hand (per CE's own guidance to "spot-check 10–15 rows"). + +*Fixes:* open issues #34 (field bleed), #63 (hallucination), #249/#253 (boilerplate-on-empty). + +### P6 — Emit CTDL JSON-LD alongside CSV · **effort S** + +Add a JSON-LD emitter that wraps each record in `{"@context": "https://credreg.net/ctdl/schema/context/json", "@type": "ceterms:…", …}`. Validate against `CredentialEngine/CTDL_Json_Validation_Schema` before export. This gives users a Registry-API-ready payload and catches enum/required-field errors that today only surface at upload. + +### Suggested pilot + +One PR covering P1 + P2 + P3, benchmarked on the 14 institutions already in `server/tests/extractions/credentials/` plus WGU. Metric: mean CTDL fields populated per credential, and % of `credential_name` values that match the Registry record. Estimate: 2–3 engineering days. + +--- + +## 5. Assumptions & limitations + +- Baseline runs used Claude with xTRA's exact prompt/schema (no `OPENAI_API_KEY` was available). Coverage findings (H1, H5) are model-independent — the 4-field ceiling is set by the schema. The name bug (H2) is prompt-driven and reproduces regardless of model. For a strict apples-to-apples on `gpt-5.4-mini`, run `harness/run.mjs --provider openai` with a key. +- WGU's Registry records are used as reference, not gospel — several are dated (`MBA_201404`), and `subjectWebpage` on all four degree records points to a college-level index page rather than the program page. +- Five pages is a demonstration, not a benchmark. The `harness/` scripts and `wgu//model-input.md` inputs are ready to scale to a larger set. + +--- + +## Appendix + +- `code-review/01-architecture.md` — how xTRA works, annotated +- `code-review/02-hypotheses.md` — ranked findings with file:line references +- `code-review/00-open-issues.md` — 46 open issues categorized +- `ctdl-reference/field-spec.md` — CTDL field checklist with Registry policy +- `wgu//` — one dir per credential: `page.html`, `page-annotated.md`, `model-input.md`, `registry.json`, `extracted.json` (see `wgu/README.md`) +- `scoring/` — field matrix CSV + scorecards + multi-extractor coverage +- `harness/` — standalone extraction runner (Node, ready for OpenAI or Anthropic key) + +--- + +## 6. Toward a robust eval — detailed design + +_Expanded from the summary in §4 above; this is the version to hand an engineer._ + +The current test suite (`server/tests/extractions/`) fetches live URLs and asserts a handful of fields with `expect.like(...)` — several assertions are commented out as `[volatile]` and two carry `// TODO: this is not the correct credential name`. That's a smoke test, not a benchmark. A benchmark that CE can hill-climb against and cite publicly: + +### 6.1 · Golden set = existing Registry records + +The truth data already exists: every credential an institution has manually published to the Registry is a labelled `(subjectWebpage → CTDL JSON-LD)` pair. No hand-labelling needed. + +- **Selection.** CE nominates ~40 publishers whose Registry records are high-quality and current (the 35 already in `server/tests/extractions/` plus WGU/SNHU/ASU/a state system are a natural start). Pick ~3 credentials per publisher ≈ 120 pairs. Stratify by catalogue vendor (Acalog, CourseLeaf, Kuali, Coursedog, custom) since page structure clusters by vendor. +- **Freeze the inputs.** For each pair: fetch `ceterms:subjectWebpage`, save to `server/tests/fixtures/pages//.html`; save the Registry JSON-LD to `.truth.json`. Extraction runs against the fixture, not the live URL — deterministic, and CI doesn't hit institution sites. +- **Registry caveat.** Some records are stale (WGU's `subjectWebpage` on all four degree records points to a college index page, not the program page). CE curating the selection filters most of this; where a truth field is empty or clearly outdated, mark it n/a rather than scoring against it. + +### 6.2 · Metrics + +Per run, emit a CSV with one row per (page, field): + +| Column | | +|---|---| +| `page`, `field` | keys | +| `on_page` | Y/N — from truth file | +| `extracted` | value or ∅ | +| `verdict` | `correct` / `partial` / `wrong-format` / `wrong-value` / `not-attempted` / `hallucinated` | +| `source_quote` | if the extractor emits it (P5) | + +Roll up to: **field-level recall** (correct ÷ on-page), **precision** (correct ÷ populated), **not-attempted rate**, and a **per-field reliability table** (which properties are ≥90% across the set). Track these per model and per prompt version so changes are attributable. + +### 6.3 · Scoring — exact where possible, judge only for free text + +Per-field verdict logic is mostly deterministic: + +| Field class | Examples | Comparison | +|---|---|---| +| Enum / vocab | `credentialType`, `learningDeliveryType`, `audienceLevelType`, `credentialStatusType`, `inLanguage` | exact match, with a documented parent/child allowance (`BachelorDegree` ⊆ `BachelorOfScienceDegree`) | +| Numeric / structured | `estimatedCost.price`, `creditValue.value`, ISO durations | normalize (currency, ISO 8601) then equality within tolerance | +| Set-of-strings | `hasPart[]` course names, `accreditedBy[]` | Jaccard overlap ≥ threshold after normalization | +| Free text | `description`, `teaches[]`, `requires.description`, `occupationType[]`, cost `paymentPattern` | **judge** | + +The **judge** is only for the last row: a cheap-model binary call — *"does the extracted value express the same fact as the reference?"* — so "Tuition: $4,125 per 6-month term" and "$4125/term (six months)" both count as correct, and "Software Developer" ≈ "Software Development Engineer" doesn't get scored as a miss. Calibrate it on ~30 human-labelled pairs and report Cohen's κ so the judge itself is trusted. xTRA already ships `similarEmbedding` in `server/tests/assertions.ts`; the judge is a natural extension of that. + +### 6.4 · CI integration + +- `pnpm test:eval` runs the frozen set, writes `eval-results/.csv`, and fails the build if recall drops >2pp from `main`'s last green. +- A `scripts/compare-eval.ts` that diffs two result CSVs and prints the field×page cells that changed — the thing you actually look at when a PR moves the number. + +### 6.5 · What this unlocks + +With a frozen benchmark, the schema-widening PR becomes "recall 8% → 90% on 120 pages, precision 95%" instead of "we added fields." It also lets CE publish an accuracy figure on the xTRA product page (currently there is none), and it's the substrate for A/B-ing model choices (`gpt-5.4-mini` vs Claude vs `gpt-5.4`) on cost-vs-quality. + +--- + diff --git a/eval/code-review/00-open-issues.md b/eval/code-review/00-open-issues.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44e72d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/code-review/00-open-issues.md @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +# CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra — Open Issues Survey + +**Snapshot:** 2026-07-01 · 46 open issues · source: GitHub `list_issues state=OPEN` + +Categorized by relevance to extraction quality. Within each bucket, issues are listed newest-first. + +--- + +## ★ Top issues where a better LLM extraction pipeline would help most + +These are the 8 issues where the root cause is the model's extraction behavior (hallucination, field-boundary errors, inconsistency, missed fields, over-emission) rather than crawling or plumbing. A stronger LLM + tighter prompting/schema would move the needle directly. + +| # | Title | Why it's an LLM-pipeline problem | +|---|---|---| +| **[#63](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/63)** | Revised course description (SOC 220) | **Hallucination.** Extracted description is a plausible paraphrase, not the verbatim catalog text. Smoking-gun case for grounding/faithfulness failure. | +| **[#134](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/134)** | CCSF inconsistencies — credit unit type, prerequisites | **Inconsistency.** Identical source phrasing ("Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable") maps to different output values across rows in the same run. | +| **[#34](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/34)** | Course descriptions contain learning objectives | **Field-boundary bleed.** Model concatenates adjacent page sections (objectives) into `description` instead of stopping at the field boundary. | +| **[#265](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/265)** / **[#208](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/208)** | Prerequisites dumped in Description instead of Condition Profiles | **Field routing.** Structured prereq/coreq/advisory text is left as prose instead of decomposed into typed `ConditionProfile` entries. | +| **[#251](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/251)** | Missing credential descriptions | **Missed required field.** Description present on page but extract cell is blank — recall failure on a mandatory field. | +| **[#249](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/249)** / **[#253](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/253)** / **[#203](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/203)** | Boilerplate emitted when source has no data | **Over-emission / negative case.** Model fills ConditionProfile / CreditUnit scaffolding even when the page has nothing — should emit null. | +| **[#262](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/262)** / **[#116](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/116)** | Duplicate competencies / duplicate program rows | **Entity dedup.** Same competency or program emitted many times per framework/run; a smarter pipeline would recognize and collapse repeats. | +| **[#257](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/257)** | Asterisks in External ID / Coded Notation | **Verbatim fidelity.** Model carries HTML footnote markers (`*`) into the coded-notation field instead of returning the clean course code. | + +Honorable mention: **[#266](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/266)** (constrain "Degree" credential type by institution locale) — a constraint-aware model could enforce controlled-vocab rules that today require post-hoc cleanup. + +--- + +## 1. Extraction accuracy / missed fields / hallucination — 12 issues + +| # | Title | Labels | Gist | +|---|---|---|---| +| [#265](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/265) | Prerequisites need to be pulled into Condition Profiles | — | Prereq text lands in `Description` prose instead of structured `ConditionProfile` rows. | +| [#262](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/262) | Competencies repeat within framework and throughout extract | — | Same 4 competencies emitted many times per framework — no dedup. | +| [#257](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/257) | Asterisks in External ID + Coded Notation fields | — | Course codes extracted with stray `*` chars not present on the catalog page. | +| [#253](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/253) | If no Credit data, remove Credit Unit Type Description | bug | Model emits placeholder credit-unit text even when no credit value exists. | +| [#251](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/251) | Missing Credential Descriptions | — | Required `Description` column blank for some credentials that do have descriptions on-page. | +| [#249](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/249) | If no condition listed, all Condition Profile fields should be blank | — | ConditionProfile scaffold rows emitted with empty description → creates blank profiles in Registry. | +| [#208](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/208) | Separation of Prerequisites, Corequisites, other Recommendations | — | Need distinct condition-profile types (prereq vs coreq vs advisory) instead of one blob. | +| [#203](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/203) | Course extractions: Selective condition profile info | — | Only populate ConditionProfile columns when a description was actually extracted. | +| [#134](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/134) | CCSF spreadsheet inconsistencies — credit unit type, prerequisites | — | Same source phrasing mapped inconsistently across rows in one extraction. | +| [#116](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/116) | Learning Program extraction pulling multiple pages / duplicate rows | bug | One program yields 3–6 rows from same or related URLs — no entity resolution. | +| [#63](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/63) | Revised course description: SOC 220 | bug, Catalogue | Extracted description is a hallucinated rewrite, not the catalog text. | +| [#34](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/34) | Course Descriptions contain course learning objectives | Crawler App Issue, MVP | `description` field bleeds into adjacent "Learning Objectives" section. | + +--- + +## 2. Crawl / page-fetch / JS-rendering — 14 issues + +| # | Title | Labels | Gist | +|---|---|---|---| +| [#261](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/261) | Berkeley City College URLs linking to blank pages | — | Emitted `Page URL` values resolve to an empty catalog shell page. | +| [#258](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/258) | Mt. San Antonio College course extract pulled 0 data | — | Run finished with 0 items — likely budget/crawl exhaustion; needs rerun. | +| [#228](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/228) | Linkless pagination support | CA Project | Catalog paginates via JS click handlers, no `` — need simulated interaction. | +| [#223](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/223) | Probing catalogue failures | CA Project | Need diagnostics for crawl failures that only reproduce on the deployed server. | +| [#221](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/221) | Dynamic Curricunet — pages broken on deployed environment | CA Project | Pages render fully locally but only partially in prod headless; no error surfaced. | +| [#211](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/211) | Support extracting "linkless" catalogues | CA Project | SPA catalogs with JS-router navigation (no URLs) need simulated-user crawling. | +| [#207](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/207) | Extracted course not found on resolved webpage | — | Content captured from a pre-redirect page; final `inCatalog` URL doesn't contain the course. | +| [#206](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/206) | inCatalog extractions with incomplete URLs | — | `inCatalog` emitted as relative path only, missing scheme/host. | +| [#191](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/191) | [California] Auto recipe creation failed | — | Auto-recipe detection silently fails to save for Coastline College catalog. | +| [#125](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/125) | eLumen catalog vendor — is recipe possible? | Catalogue | New vendor layout (sidebar categories → programs+courses) — feasibility ask. | +| [#122](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/122) | Manual recipe config does not detect link/pagination patterns | bug | "Detect" returns "Unknown" for both links and pagination on NWACC catalog. | +| [#114](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/114) | Address pages that have lazy loading | Improvement | Infinite-scroll catalog: pagination detected but 0 extractions produced. | +| [#79](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/79) | East Stroudsburg (SmartCatalogIQ) failed to detect valid config | — | Recipe auto-detect fails on SmartCatalogIQ vendor. | +| [#22](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/22) | Support "load more" pagination | Improvement | Handle button-click / lazy-load pagination patterns. | + +--- + +## 3. CTDL mapping / schema / output-format — 9 issues + +| # | Title | Labels | Gist | +|---|---|---|---| +| [#266](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/266) | Adjust degree type based on institution location | — | Restrict "Degree" credential type to non-US institutions per CTDL vocab rules. | +| [#254](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/254) | Change "In Catalog" header to "Subject Webpage" | — | Rename output column so credential extracts match Registry upload template. | +| [#252](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/252) | "is Part of" column pulling incorrect IDs | — | Competency `isPartOf` points at course/program ID, not the framework CTID. | +| [#250](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/250) | UUIDs generated instead of CTIDs | — | ID columns emit raw UUIDs; Registry needs `ce-`-prefixed CTIDs. | +| [#205](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/205) | Option for SubjectWebpage instead of inCatalog | — | Recipe-level toggle for which URL header to emit (non-catalog sources). | +| [#204](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/204) | Option for downloading data using a custom template | — | Let users supply an Excel template and map extracted fields into it. | +| [#202](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/202) | Add column with CTIDs | — | Add CTID column to output (no body). | +| [#179](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/179) | Implement updated template for course pre/co-requisites | — | New output template for prereq/coreq columns (no body). | +| [#141](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/141) | Linking Classes | — | Study/implement CTDL cross-class linking schema. | + +--- + +## 4. New-field / coverage requests — 3 issues + +| # | Title | Labels | Gist | +|---|---|---|---| +| [#255](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/255) | Allow regional selection in Language column | — | Let user pick `en-US` / `en-GB` etc. instead of hard-coded `en`. | +| [#143](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/143) | Expansion to new CTDL classes | — | Add extraction support for SupportService, AssessmentProfile, Metric, AccreditAction. | +| [#142](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/142) | Expansion of terms for the 4 classes | — | Extract additional CTDL properties beyond the current minimum set. | + +--- + +## 5. UI / infra / other — 8 issues (not detailed) + +[#259](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/259) meta tracking list · [#168](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/168) login UX bug · [#164](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/164) disk space · [#159](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/159) prod stack · [#154](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/154) proxy cost telemetry · [#62](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/62) explore batch API · [#40](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/40) recipe-config UX · [#21](https://github.com/CredentialEngine/ctdl-xtra/issues/21) role mgmt / notification emails. + +--- + +## Takeaways for an eval + +- **Largest bucket is crawl/render (14)**, not model quality — but those are engineering fixes, not LLM upgrades. +- **12 issues are pure extraction-quality** and cluster into 5 recurring failure modes a better pipeline should target: + 1. Hallucinated / paraphrased values (#63) + 2. Field-boundary bleed & wrong-field routing (#34, #265, #208) + 3. Inconsistent mapping of identical source text (#134) + 4. Over-emission when source is empty (#249, #253, #203) + 5. Missed required fields & duplicates (#251, #262, #116, #257) +- The **CTDL-mapping bucket (9)** is mostly deterministic post-processing (IDs, headers, templates) — low LLM leverage, high leverage for a schema/validation layer. diff --git a/eval/code-review/01-architecture.md b/eval/code-review/01-architecture.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4c00ca --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/code-review/01-architecture.md @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +# ctdl-xtra — Architecture Notes + +_How the extraction pipeline works today. Synthesized from a full read of `server/src/`, `common/`, tests, and docs._ + +--- + +## TL;DR + +xTRA is a **crawl-then-extract** system: an LLM first reverse-engineers an institution's catalog structure into a reusable "recipe" (a crawl plan), then a second LLM pass extracts structured records from each detail page. The extractor is **OpenAI-only** (default `gpt-5.4-mini`), pulls a **narrow field set** (4 fields for a Credential, 3 for a Learning Program), and emits **Registry bulk-upload CSVs** — not CTDL JSON-LD. Hallucination is guarded by a verbatim-text-inclusion check with up to 3 retries. + +--- + +## 1. Pipeline + +``` +Institution URL + │ + ▼ Phase A — Recipe detection (one-time, LLM-driven) +recursivelyDetectConfiguration + • detectCatalogueType → COURSES | LEARNING_PROGRAMS | COMPETENCIES | CREDENTIALS + • detectPageType → DETAIL | DETAIL_LINKS | CATEGORY_LINKS + • detectPagination → {page_num}/{offset} template + total pages + • detectUrlRegexp → JS regex to harvest child URLs + → RecipeConfiguration (JSON tree, saved to Postgres) + │ + ▼ Phase B — Crawl (BullMQ) +fetchPage worker + • Puppeteer (rebrowser + stealth) → raw HTML + webp screenshot + • simplifyHtml → strip attrs, drop head/footer/iframe, collapse divs + • turndown → simplified Markdown + • follow recipe: paginate, regex-extract child URLs, enqueue + │ + ▼ Phase C — Extract (BullMQ, per detail page) +extractData worker → extractAndVerifyEntityData + • [optional] presencePrompt gate (competencies only) + • [courses only] chunk if >1000 tokens & multi-course + • extractEntityData → OpenAI structured-output OR forced tool-call + • reportTextInclusion → is each field verbatim in the page? + • retry ≤3× with bad extraction fed back + • [competencies only] exploreAdditionalPages → follow outcome links + → dataItem rows (Postgres) + │ + ▼ Export +csv.ts → Registry Bulk Upload CSV (per catalogue type) +``` + +**Queues** (BullMQ/Redis): `detectConfiguration`, `fetchPage`, `extractData`, `extractDataWithApi`, `updateExtractionCompletion`. + +--- + +## 2. LLM layer + +| | | +|---|---| +| **Provider** | OpenAI only (`common/types.ts:96-98` — `enum Provider { OpenAI = "openai" }`, single member). No Claude anywhere. | +| **Models** | `gpt-4o`, `gpt-4.1`, `o3-mini`, `o4-mini`, `gpt-5`, `gpt-5-nano`, `gpt-5.4`, `gpt-5.4-mini`, `gpt-5.4-nano` | +| **Default** | `gpt-5.4-mini` for all four catalogue types (`catalogueTypes.ts:212,305,345,455`); wrapper fallback `gpt-5` | +| **Output mode** | Forced function-call (Courses, Programs, all `detect*`) or `response_format: json_schema, strict:true` (Competencies, Credentials) | +| **System msg** | None — everything is a single `role:"user"` message | +| **Multimodal** | Page screenshot sent as `image_url` unless `skipScreenshot` (Competencies skip); silently dropped on `invalid_base64` | +| **Temperature** | Default `1` (!) — only Competencies overrides (`temperature:1, top_p:0.5`) | +| **Retry** | 10× exponential on API errors; separate 3× extraction retry with prior output as negative example | +| **Embeddings** | `text-embedding-3-small` (used in test similarity assertions) | + +Wrapper: `server/src/openai.ts` — `simpleToolCompletion()` and `structuredCompletion()`. Cost tracked per call (`ModelPrices` table + `createModelApiCallLog`). + +--- + +## 3. What it extracts (complete field inventory) + +| Entity | Fields | Count | +|---|---|---| +| **Course** | `course_id`\*, `course_name`\*, `course_description`\*, `course_prerequisites`, `course_non_credit`, `course_credits_min`, `course_credits_max`, `course_credits_type` (CTDL enum), `course_ceu_credits` | 9 | +| **Learning Program** | `learning_program_id`\*, `learning_program_name`\*, `learning_program_description`\* | 3 | +| **Competency** | `text`\*, `competency_framework`, `competency_category` (`outcomes`/`course_objectives`/`unknown`), `language` | 4 | +| **Credential** | `credential_name`\*, `credential_description`\*, `credential_type`\* (38-value CTDL enum), `language` | 4 | + +**20 fields total.** Notably **not** extracted for any type: cost/tuition, duration, delivery mode, location, occupation/industry codes, assessment info, admission requirements (beyond course prereqs), accreditation, offered-by/owned-by organization, subject webpage, keywords, outcome data, CTID, credit hours for programs. + +Schema lives in `common/catalogueTypes.ts` (prompt descriptions) + `common/types.ts` (TS interfaces). All non-enum fields are typed `string` in the LLM schema. + +--- + +## 4. Prompt design + +Assembled per call from `catalogueTypes[type]` in `extractEntityData.ts:getBasePrompt()`: + +``` +Your goal is to extract {entity} data from this page. + Extract the data EXACTLY as it shows up in the page. + NEVER paraphrase, rewrite or change content unless requested. + +{desiredOutput} +We are looking for the following fields: +{field}: {description} (REQUIRED) +... + +PAGE URL: {url} + +SIMPLIFIED PAGE CONTENT: +```markdown +{markdown} +``` +``` + +Per-field descriptions in `catalogueTypes.ts` are the substantive instructions. Notable prompt-text observations: + +- **Credentials `desiredOutput`** (`:447-454`): says "Do not list Certifications, those are not credentials" — but `Certification` **is** in the `credential_type` enum. Internal contradiction. Also: typo "prof of completion", "Don not include". Also: "Ignore stackable certificates" with no rationale. +- **Courses `credits_type`** (`:257-278`) — 20-line rule block; the most engineered prompt in the codebase. +- **Programs** — bare-bones; description says "take only the first few paragraphs" (deliberately truncates). +- **No CTDL context** — the LLM is never told what CTDL is, what the Registry expects, or given field-level examples of good CTDL values. +- **No few-shot** — `examples` field exists on the schema but no catalogue type populates it. + +--- + +## 5. Hallucination guard + +`extractAndVerifyEntityData.ts:reportTextInclusion()` — for each extracted field, checks whether the value (lowercased, alphanumeric-only) appears as a substring of the source markdown. Result stored as `TextInclusion` booleans and rolled up to a `Text Verification Average` column in the CSV. If any `propertiesRequiredAsPhrases` field fails, the extraction is retried (≤3×) with the bad output fed back as a negative example ("Your previous extraction (INCORRECT) was: …"). + +This catches fabrication but **not** wrong-field routing (extracting the description into the name field), missed fields, or paraphrases that preserve some source words. + +--- + +## 6. Output + +`server/src/csv.ts` → Registry Bulk Upload CSV, one variant per catalogue type. Several columns are **hard-coded**: `Language="English"`, `Life Cycle Status Type="Active"`, `Learning Type="Course"/"Learning Program"`. Credential `External Identifier` is a `randomUUID()` (no natural key). + +**No JSON-LD output.** Competency CSV borrows `@type`/`ceasn:*` header names but there's no `@context`, no graph, no `ceterms:` emitter. + +--- + +## 7. Tests + +`server/tests/extractions/` — golden tests that fetch real institution URLs live and assert extracted fields. 21 competency, 14 credential, 7 program, 3 course institution files. Helper `extractCredentials(url)` (`tests/index.ts:280`) is the **de-facto CLI** — it bypasses BullMQ/Postgres, calls Puppeteer + `extractAndVerifyEntityData` directly. + +Tests themselves acknowledge extraction problems: `ivytech.test.ts` has `// TODO: this is not the correct credential name` on multiple assertions and comments-out description checks as "[volatile]". + +--- + +## 8. Local run requirements + +Full app: Postgres + Redis + Chromium + `OPENAI_API_KEY` all hard-required (import-time throws). No docker-compose; README gives raw `docker run` for PG+Redis. + +**Minimal path for extraction-only:** the `tests/index.ts` helpers (`extractCredentials`, `extractCompetencies`) need only Chromium + `OPENAI_API_KEY` — but the import chain still pulls `data/index.ts`, so `DATABASE_URL` + `ENCRYPTION_KEY` must be set to *something* even if never connected. `checkDetection.ts` is a CLI for Phase A only. + +--- + +## References + +- `server/src/openai.ts` — wrapper +- `server/src/extraction/llm/*.ts` — 10 LLM call sites +- `common/catalogueTypes.ts` — prompts + schemas (554 lines) +- `common/types.ts` — TS interfaces + enums +- `server/src/csv.ts` — export +- `server/src/extraction/recursivelyDetectConfiguration.ts` — Phase A orchestrator +- `server/src/workers/{fetchPage,extractData}.ts` — Phase B/C workers +- `doc/worker-queues.md` — their own flow diagram +- `server/tests/index.ts` + `server/tests/extractions/**` — golden tests diff --git a/eval/code-review/02-hypotheses.md b/eval/code-review/02-hypotheses.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a4ee61 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/code-review/02-hypotheses.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +# ctdl-xtra — Hypothesized Improvements + +_Code-review findings on the extraction path, ranked by expected impact. Each is a testable hypothesis; Phase 4 (WGU scoring) confirms or refutes._ + +--- + +## H1 — Field coverage is the dominant gap, not accuracy · impact: ★★★★★ + +**Observation.** xTRA extracts 4 fields for a Credential (name, description, type, language) and 3 for a Learning Program. The CTDL Registry Minimum Data Policy plus recommended fields cover ~25–30 properties, most of which are present on a typical WGU program page: tuition, time-to-complete, delivery mode, admission requirements, learning outcomes, career/occupation targets, accreditation, credit hours. **None of these are attempted.** + +**Why it's this way.** The `catalogueTypes.ts` schema is hand-maintained; each new field means writing a prompt description + updating TS types + adding a CSV column. The team appears to have started narrow (Course id/name/description/credits) and not expanded. + +**Claude intervention.** Widen `CredentialStructuredData` and `LearningProgramStructuredData` to ~25 CTDL-aligned fields with proper types (numbers, enums, nested objects). Claude with structured tool-use handles a 25-field schema in one pass; the incremental cost is negligible. This is the single highest-leverage change and is mostly a schema/prompt edit, not new architecture. + +**Evidence to gather:** For each WGU page, count CTDL-relevant facts on the page vs fields xTRA populates → the "not-attempted" bucket in the failure taxonomy. + +--- + +## H2 — Prompt contradictions and typos degrade credential extraction · impact: ★★★★ + +**Observation.** `catalogueTypes.ts:447-454` (Credentials `desiredOutput`): +- "Do not list Certifications, those are not credentials" — but `Certification` is in the `credential_type` enum at :499. The model is told to skip a valid answer. +- "Ignore stackable certificates" — arbitrary; many institutions publish these as first-class credentials. +- Typos: "prof of completion", "Don not include" (:459). +- `credential_name` prompt says "Do not include the type of credential in the name" → so "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science" should extract as "Computer Science"? That contradicts CTDL practice (Registry records use full names). + +**Evidence in their own tests:** `ivytech.test.ts:19,28` — `credential_name: expect.like("Applied Science") // TODO: this is not the correct credential name`. The model is following the "strip the type" instruction and producing bad names. + +**Claude intervention.** Rewrite the credential prompt with CTDL definitions in-context and 2–3 few-shot examples pulled from Registry records. Remove the contradictions. This is a prompt-only fix. + +--- + +## H3 — Temperature=1 causes run-to-run inconsistency · impact: ★★★ + +**Observation.** `openai.ts:135` — `temperature: options?.temperature ?? 1`. No catalogue type sets a lower value for extraction. Temperature 1 is appropriate for creative generation, not deterministic extraction. + +**Maps to open issue #134** (inconsistent mapping of identical source text). + +**Claude intervention.** Set `temperature: 0` for all extraction calls. One-line change; free. + +--- + +## H4 — All-string schema loses type safety and CTDL formatting · impact: ★★★ + +**Observation.** `extractEntityData.ts:258-262` — every property is `{type: "string"}` in the tool schema (except `credits_type`). Credits are parsed to float in post-processing but duration, cost, dates, booleans are all free text. CTDL wants ISO 8601 durations (`P24M`), typed cost profiles, controlled vocabularies. The model isn't asked for them, so it can't provide them. + +**Claude intervention.** Use JSON Schema with proper types, formats, and enums per CTDL controlled vocabularies. Where CTDL wants a nested object (ConditionProfile, CostProfile, DurationProfile), define the nested schema. Claude tool-use enforces these at the API layer. + +--- + +## H5 — Single-page extraction misses facts on sibling pages · impact: ★★★★ + +**Observation.** WGU (and most universities) split program info across tabs/pages: overview, tuition, admissions, courses, careers. xTRA extracts from **one** DETAIL page. `exploreDuringExtraction` exists but only Competencies enable it, and it only follows outcome-specific links. + +**Claude intervention.** An agentic "gather" step: given the program overview page, follow the tuition/admissions/courses/outcomes sibling links (same-origin, same-program), concatenate the simplified markdown, then extract once from the combined context. This is where Claude's larger context window and better instruction-following on multi-document synthesis pay off. + +--- + +## H6 — Verbatim-inclusion check misses wrong-field routing and paraphrase · impact: ★★★ + +**Observation.** `reportTextInclusion` only checks substring presence. If the model puts the program description in the `credential_name` field, the text is still "on the page" → passes verification. Open issue #34 (objectives leak into description) is exactly this. + +**Claude intervention.** A second-pass validator: given the extracted record + source markdown, ask a fresh model instance "for each field, is this the *right* value for this field, or did it come from elsewhere on the page?" with a per-field confidence score. Cheap (small model, short output) and catches the failure mode substring-matching can't. + +--- + +## H7 — No CTDL-schema validation before export · impact: ★★ + +**Observation.** CSV rows are written with hard-coded `Language="English"`, `Life Cycle Status="Active"`, no check against the Registry's Minimum Data Policy or CTDL JSON Schema. Invalid `credential_type` values would only surface at Registry upload. + +**Claude intervention.** A Claude-driven validate step: render the extracted record as CTDL JSON-LD, ask Claude to check it against the CTDL schema + Minimum Data Policy, report missing-required and invalid-enum. Or (cheaper) use `CredentialEngine/CTDL_Json_Validation_Schema` programmatically and have Claude explain failures. + +--- + +## H8 — 1000-token chunk threshold + LLM-generated split regex is fragile · impact: ★★ + +**Observation.** `splitChunks.ts` — pages >1000 tokens with multiple courses are split by an LLM-generated regex, retried up to 10× until chunk count matches expected ±10%. Regex generation for arbitrary HTML-derived markdown is brittle; the 1000-token limit is a `gpt-4`-era artifact. + +**Claude intervention.** With 200K context, drop chunking entirely for pages under ~50K tokens (nearly all). For genuine mega-pages, semantic chunking (ask model for entity boundaries as character offsets, not a regex). + +--- + +## H9 — `detectUrlRegexp` regex generation is a known reliability sink · impact: ★★ + +**Observation.** `detectUrlRegexp.ts` (256 lines of prompt) asks the LLM to write a JS regex matching detail-page URLs from a sample. Regex generation is notoriously unreliable; several open issues in the crawl/fetch bucket trace to bad regexes missing pages. + +**Claude intervention.** Replace regex-generation with a per-URL classifier: for each discovered link, ask "is this a {entity} detail page? y/n" in a batched call. More LLM calls but far more reliable, and Claude Haiku-class makes it cheap. + +--- + +## H10 — No confidence / provenance in output · impact: ★★ + +**Observation.** CSV has a `Text Verification Average` column but no per-field confidence, no source-span citation. Reviewers (per CE's own guidance) must "spot-check 10–15 random rows" blind. + +**Claude intervention.** Emit per-field `{value, confidence, sourceQuote, sourceUrl}`. Trivial schema extension; huge UX win for the human review step. + +--- + +## Engineering-hygiene findings (lower priority for the pitch) + +- **Copy-paste bug**: `detectChunkSplitRegexp.ts` logs `callSite: "detectUrlRegexp"` — cost attribution is wrong. +- **`@ts-ignore` in hot path** (`extractEntityData.ts:322`) — schema type mismatch papered over. +- **Offset pagination is a TODO** (`fetchPage.ts:60-62`) — returns `[]`, silently drops pages. +- **`randomUUID()` as External Identifier** for credentials — no stable key; re-running an extraction produces new IDs, breaking Registry updates. +- **No system message** — all instructions in the user turn; misses a cheap prompt-engineering lever. +- **`assertNumber` regex** (`openai.ts:426`) only matches integers (`^\d+$`), rejects floats — inconsistent with `parseCreditValue` which uses `parseFloat`. + +--- + +## Test plan mapping + +| Hypothesis | WGU test | Pass/fail signal | +|---|---|---| +| H1 coverage | Count CTDL facts on page vs fields populated | "not-attempted" ≫ "missed" in failure taxonomy | +| H2 prompt bugs | Credential name for BS CompSci, MBA | Name comes back as "Computer Science" not "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science" | +| H3 temp=1 | Run same page 3× | Output varies | +| H4 typing | Duration/cost fields | Free text, not ISO/structured | +| H5 multi-page | Tuition, admission reqs on WGU | Absent from extraction (they're on sibling tabs) | +| H6 wrong-routing | Description content | Description contains outcome bullets or vice versa | diff --git a/eval/ctdl-reference/field-spec.md b/eval/ctdl-reference/field-spec.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d9f699 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/ctdl-reference/field-spec.md @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +# CTDL Field Specification — Reference for xTRA Evaluation + +Distilled from the [CTDL term list](https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms), the [Registry Minimum Data Policy](https://credreg.net/registry/policy), the [Registry Assistant / bulk-upload docs](https://credreg.net/registry/assistant), the CTDL JSON-LD schema (`https://credreg.net/ctdl/schema/encoding/json`), and the [xTRA product page](https://credentialengine.org/toolkit/credential-engine-ctdl-xtra-tool/) + [xTRA course-review guidance](https://guidance.credentialengine.org/xtra-tool-review-and-publish-course-data/). Compiled July 2026. + +--- + +## 1. Entity types xTRA cares about + +| CTDL class | One-line definition | xTRA status | +|---|---|---| +| **`ceterms:Credential`** (and ~30 subclasses — `BachelorDegree`, `Certificate`, `License`, `MicroCredential`, …) | A qualification, achievement, or authority issued to a person on successful completion of requirements. | In development | +| **`ceterms:LearningOpportunityProfile`** ("Learning Program") | A structured set of learning activities (a program) that leads to an outcome, usually a credential. | Ready for pilot | +| **`ceterms:Course`** | A single structured sequence of educational activities — the unit inside a program/catalog. | **In pilot** (most mature) | +| **`ceasn:Competency`** / **`ceasn:CompetencyFramework`** | A statement of measurable skill/knowledge/ability, and the container that groups related competencies. | Ready for pilot | +| **`ceterms:CredentialOrganization`** | The org that owns, offers, or QA's credentials — the publisher record every other entity hangs off. | Not extracted by xTRA (user supplies) | + +--- + +## 2. Field table — Credential & Learning Opportunity / Course + +Requirement levels are from the Registry Minimum Data Policy: **Req** = must be present to publish, **Rec** = Recommended-Benchmark tier, **Opt** = optional. Where Credential and LearningOpp differ, both are shown as `Cred / LOpp`. + +| CTDL property | Plain-English meaning | Req level (Cred / LOpp) | Typical source on a program webpage | Example value | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `ceterms:ctid` | Registry-assigned globally unique ID | **Req / Req** | *Not on page* — generated at publish time | `ce-4f36b9b1-…` | +| `ceterms:name` | Official title of the credential or program | **Req / Req** | Page `

` / catalog title | "Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics" | +| `ceterms:description` | Narrative overview of purpose, content, outcomes | **Req / Req** | "About this program" / lead paragraph | "Prepares students to collect, model and interpret data …" | +| `ceterms:subjectWebpage` | Canonical public URL for this credential | **Req / Req** | The page URL itself | `https://catalog.example.edu/bs-data-analytics` | +| `ceterms:ownedBy` \| `offeredBy` | Org that owns / delivers it (at least one) | **Req / Req** | Header/footer institution name; "Offered by the College of Engineering" | ref → CredentialOrganization | +| *Credential subclass* (`@type`) | Which of the ~30 credential types this is | **Req / —** | Degree-type label on page ("Bachelor's", "Graduate Certificate") | `ceterms:BachelorDegree` | +| `ceterms:credentialStatusType` | Lifecycle state of the credential | **Req / —** *(LOpp uses `lifeCycleStatusType`, Opt)* | Rarely stated; assume Active unless "no longer offered" | `credentialStat:Active` | +| `ceterms:inLanguage` | Language of instruction | **Req / Opt** | "Taught in English"; often implicit | `en-US` | +| `ceterms:learningDeliveryType` / `deliveryType` | Modality: online / in-person / blended | Rec / Rec | "100% online", "On-campus", "Hybrid" badges | `deliveryType:OnlineOnly` | +| `ceterms:audienceLevelType` | Educational level targeted | Rec / Rec | "Undergraduate", "Graduate program" | `audLevel:BachelorsDegreeLevel` | +| `ceterms:audienceType` | Who it's for (population) | Opt / Opt | "For working professionals", "veterans welcome" | `audience:PartTime` | +| `ceterms:estimatedDuration` | Typical time to complete → `DurationProfile` | Rec / Rec | "4-year program", "18 months", "120 contact hours" | `{ exactDuration: "P4Y" }` | +| `ceterms:estimatedCost` | Tuition / fees → `CostProfile` | Rec / Rec | Tuition & fees table; "Cost per credit" | `{ price: 24800, currency: "USD", costType: costType:Tuition }` | +| `ceterms:creditValue` | Credits awarded → `ValueProfile` | — / Rec | "120 credit hours", "3 credits" | `{ value: 120, creditUnitType: creditUnit:DegreeCredit }` | +| `ceterms:creditUnitTypeDescription` | Free-text credit-system note | Opt / Opt | Footnote on credit table | "Semester credit hours" | +| `ceterms:requires` | Entry / completion requirements → `ConditionProfile` | Rec / Rec | "Admission Requirements", "Prerequisites" section | `{ description: "High-school diploma; GPA ≥ 2.5" }` | +| `ceterms:recommends` | Suggested (not mandatory) preparation | Rec / Rec | "Recommended background" | `{ description: "Prior stats coursework recommended" }` | +| `ceterms:corequisite` | Must be taken concurrently | Rec / Opt | "Co-requisites" line in catalog | ref → Course | +| `ceterms:entryCondition` | Admission-specific gate (LOpp) | — / Opt | "Admissions" tab | `{ description: "TOEFL ≥ 80 for intl. applicants" }` | +| `ceterms:teaches` | Competencies / learning outcomes delivered | Opt / Opt | "Learning outcomes", "You will learn to…" bullets | list of Competency refs or free-text outcomes | +| `ceterms:isPreparationFor` | What this leads to (next credential, exam, job) | Rec / Rec | "Prepares you for the PMP exam", "Pathway to MS" | ref → Credential / Occupation | +| `ceterms:occupationType` | Related occupations (O*NET / SOC coded) | Rec / Rec | "Careers" / "Job outcomes" section | `15-2051` (Data Scientists) | +| `ceterms:industryType` | Related industries (NAICS coded) | Rec / Rec | "Industries hiring our grads" | `5415` (Computer Systems Design) | +| `ceterms:keyword` | Free-text search tags | Rec / Rec | Meta keywords; repeated topical phrases | `["data analytics","SQL","visualization"]` | +| `ceterms:subject` | Subject-area classification (CIP or free text) | Rec / Opt | Department / discipline label | "Computer and Information Sciences" | +| `ceterms:degreeMajor` | Primary field of study (Degree only) | Opt / — | "Major: Data Analytics" | "Data Analytics" | +| `ceterms:degreeConcentration` | Track / specialization inside a degree | Opt / — | "Concentrations: Business Analytics, Health Informatics" | "Health Informatics" | +| `ceterms:availableAt` | Physical delivery location → `Place` | Rec / Rec | Campus address block | `{ addressLocality: "Tempe", addressRegion: "AZ" }` | +| `ceterms:availableOnlineAt` | URL where it's delivered online | Rec / Rec | "Apply / enroll online" link | `https://online.example.edu/…` | +| `ceterms:dateEffective` | Date this version became active | Rec / Rec | "Effective Fall 2025" catalog note | `2025-08-15` | +| `ceterms:codedNotation` / `identifier` | Institution's own code (course no., program code) | Opt / Opt | "CS 350", "Program code: BSDA" | `"CS 350"` | +| `ceterms:accreditedBy` / `approvedBy` | External QA body | Rec / Rec | Accreditation-logo footer | ref → QACredentialOrganization (e.g. ABET) | +| `ceterms:financialAssistance` | Aid available → `FinancialAssistanceProfile` | Rec* / Rec | "Financial aid available", "GI Bill approved" | `{ name: "Federal Pell Grant" }` | + +\* Conditionally required for Certification, License, Degree, Apprenticeship subclasses. + +--- + +## 3. Value-format notes + +### Controlled vocabularies (must map to a concept URI, not free text) + +| Property | Concept scheme | Allowed values (from CTDL JSON schema) | +|---|---|---| +| `credentialStatusType` | `ceterms:CredentialStatus` | `credentialStat:` **Active**, Ceasing, Deprecated, Probationary, Suspended, TeachOut | +| `lifeCycleStatusType` (LOpp/Course) | `ceterms:LifeCycleStatus` | `lifeCycle:` Active, Ceasing, Developing, Suspended, TeachOut | +| `audienceLevelType` | `ceterms:AudienceLevel` | `audLevel:` BeginnerLevel, IntermediateLevel, AdvancedLevel, SecondaryLevel, PostSecondaryLevel, LowerDivisionLevel, UpperDivisionLevel, UndergraduateLevel, AssociatesDegreeLevel, BachelorsDegreeLevel, GraduateLevel, MastersDegreeLevel, DoctoralDegreeLevel, ProfessionalLevel, … (19 total) | +| `audienceType` | `ceterms:Audience` | `audience:` Citizen, Resident/NonResident, FullTime/PartTime, CurrentMilitary/FormerMilitary, CurrentStudent, PublicEmployee, … (29 total) | +| `learningDeliveryType` / `deliveryType` / `assessmentDeliveryType` | `ceterms:Delivery` | `deliveryType:` **InPerson**, **OnlineOnly**, **BlendedDelivery**, VariableSite (only 4) | +| `creditUnitType` (inside `creditValue`) | `ceterms:CreditUnit` | `creditUnit:` DegreeCredit, ContactHour, ContinuingEducationUnit, CertificateCredit, … | +| `costType` (inside `estimatedCost`) | `ceterms:CostType` | `costType:` Tuition, ApplicationFee, RoomBoardArrangement, TechnologyFee, … | +| *Credential* `@type` | subclass list | ~30 subclasses — `Certificate`, `Certification`, `License`, `Badge`/`DigitalBadge`/`OpenBadge`, `MicroCredential`, `Diploma`, `SecondarySchoolDiploma`, `GeneralEducationDevelopment`, `AssociateDegree`, `BachelorDegree`, `MasterDegree`, `DoctoralDegree`, `ProfessionalDoctorate`, `SpecialistDegree`, `ApprenticeshipCertificate`, `JourneymanCertificate`, `QualityAssuranceCredential`, … | + +### External code lists (`CredentialAlignmentObject` with a framework URL) + +- `occupationType` → O*NET-SOC or ISCO codes +- `industryType` → NAICS or ISIC codes +- `instructionalProgramType` / `subject` → CIP codes (US) or free text + +### ISO-typed scalars + +- **Durations** — `estimatedDuration` → `ceterms:DurationProfile` whose `exactDuration` / `minimumDuration` / `maximumDuration` are `schema:Duration` = **ISO 8601 duration** strings (`P4Y`, `P18M`, `PT120H`). +- **Dates** — `dateEffective`, `expirationDate`, `renewalFrequency` → ISO 8601 date (`YYYY-MM-DD`) or duration. +- **Language** — `inLanguage` → BCP-47 tag (`en`, `en-US`, `es-MX`). + +### Language-map strings (`rdf:langString`) + +All human-readable text is serialized as a language map, not a bare string: + +```json +"ceterms:name": { "en-US": "Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics" } +``` + +Applies to `name`, `description`, `keyword` (langString array), `subject`, `degreeMajor`, `degreeConcentration`, `creditUnitTypeDescription`, and every `description` inside a sub-profile (`ConditionProfile`, `CostProfile`, `DurationProfile`). + +### Structured sub-objects (not flat scalars) + +| Property | Range class | Min viable payload | +|---|---|---| +| `estimatedDuration` | `DurationProfile` | `{ exactDuration }` or `{ minimumDuration, maximumDuration }` | +| `estimatedCost` | `CostProfile` | `{ costType, price, currency }` | +| `creditValue` | `ValueProfile` | `{ value, creditUnitType }` | +| `requires` / `recommends` / `corequisite` / `entryCondition` | `ConditionProfile` | `{ description }` (≥ 15 chars) or `{ targetCredential / targetLearningOpportunity }` | +| `availableAt` | `Place` | `{ streetAddress, addressLocality, addressRegion, postalCode, addressCountry }` | +| `occupationType` / `industryType` / `subject` | `CredentialAlignmentObject` | `{ targetNodeName, codedNotation, framework }` | +| `financialAssistance` | `FinancialAssistanceProfile` | `{ name, financialAssistanceType }` | + +--- + +## 4. What xTRA claims to extract + +**Input** → a public URL (course catalog page, program page, competency list). No auth'd pages, no PDFs mentioned. +**Output** → a CSV pre-shaped for the Registry bulk-upload template. +**Process** → extract → transform to CTDL columns → "validate against original content" → CSV. + +### Entity coverage claimed on the product page + +| Entity | Claimed status | +|---|---| +| Course | **In pilot** | +| Learning Program (LearningOpportunityProfile) | Ready for pilot | +| Competency Framework | Ready for pilot | +| Credential | In development | + +### Fields the Course pipeline actually populates (per CE's own review-guidance doc) + +| Bulk-upload column | How xTRA fills it | +|---|---| +| Course number / `codedNotation` | Extracted | +| `name` | Extracted | +| `description` | Extracted | +| `subjectWebpage` (catalog URL) | Extracted | +| `creditValue` — value | Extracted | +| `creditValue` — `creditUnitType` | Extracted **when determinable**; flagged for user when not | +| `requires` (`ConditionProfile.description`) — prerequisites | Extracted when present | +| `identifier` (External Identifier) | Auto-set = course number | +| `inLanguage` | Auto-set = `en` | +| `lifeCycleStatusType` | Auto-set = `Active` | + +### Not claimed / user must supply or verify + +- Anything vocabulary-mapped beyond the three auto-sets: `deliveryType`, `audienceLevelType`, `audienceType`, credential `@type`. +- `estimatedDuration`, `estimatedCost`, `occupationType`, `industryType`, `teaches` (learning outcomes). +- De-duplication ("check for duplicate course numbers"), min-length on `ConditionProfile.description` (≥ 15 chars), and general accuracy — CE recommends spot-checking 10–15 random rows against the source catalog. + +**No accuracy metric is published.** The product page positions xTRA as a bootstrap for the bulk-upload CSV, explicitly *not* a replacement for API/native-CTDL publishing. + +--- + +## Bulk-upload template note + +The Registry bulk-upload template is **generated per-publisher** in the [Publisher tool](https://apps.credentialengine.org/publisher/): the user picks properties in "Step 2 — Select Your Properties" and the tool emits a CSV whose column headers = the chosen CTDL property names (Row 1), with optional sample-data + instruction rows. There is no single canonical column list — the Required set above is the floor; xTRA targets the Course template's default column set. diff --git a/eval/harness/enhanced-schema.mjs b/eval/harness/enhanced-schema.mjs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e0893d --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/harness/enhanced-schema.mjs @@ -0,0 +1,234 @@ +// Enhanced CTDL extraction schema — what xTRA COULD extract with a wider net. +// Field set drawn from CTDL Minimum Data Policy + recommended properties for +// Credential + LearningOpportunityProfile (see ../ctdl-reference/field-spec.md). +// +// Note: this enum is a curated CTDL-correct subset (includes degree sub-types +// like BachelorOfScienceDegree). It intentionally differs from xTRA's 38-value +// enum in xtra-prompts.mjs, which is preserved verbatim for the baseline. + +const strArr = (description, enum_) => ({ + type: ["array", "null"], + items: enum_ ? { type: "string", enum: enum_ } : { type: "string" }, + description, +}); + +const CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ENUM = [ + "AcademicCertificate", "ApprenticeshipCertificate", "AssociateDegree", + "AssociateOfAppliedArtsDegree", "AssociateOfAppliedScienceDegree", + "AssociateOfArtsDegree", "AssociateOfScienceDegree", "BachelorDegree", + "BachelorOfArtsDegree", "BachelorOfScienceDegree", "Badge", "Certificate", + "CertificateOfCompletion", "Certification", "Degree", "DigitalBadge", + "Diploma", "DoctoralDegree", "License", "MasterDegree", + "MasterOfArtsDegree", "MasterOfScienceDegree", "MicroCredential", + "OpenBadge", "PostBaccalaureateCertificate", "ProfessionalCertificate", + "ProfessionalDoctorate", "ResearchDoctorate", "SecondarySchoolDiploma", +]; + +const DELIVERY_TYPE_ENUM = [ + "BlendedDelivery", "InPerson", "OnlineOnly", "MultipleDelivery", +]; + +const AUDIENCE_LEVEL_ENUM = [ + "AdvancedLevel", "AssociatesDegreeLevel", "BachelorsDegreeLevel", + "BeginnerLevel", "DoctoralDegreeLevel", "GraduateLevel", + "IntermediateLevel", "LowerDivisionLevel", "MastersDegreeLevel", + "PostSecondaryLevel", "ProfessionalLevel", "SecondaryLevel", + "UndergraduateLevel", "UpperDivisionLevel", +]; + +const STATUS_ENUM = ["Active", "Deprecated", "Probationary", "Suspended", "TeachOut"]; + +export const ENHANCED_SCHEMA = { + type: "object", + properties: { + // --- identity --- + name: { + type: "string", + description: + "Full official name of the credential/program as the institution publishes it, including degree type. Ex: 'Bachelor of Science in Computer Science', 'Master of Business Administration'.", + }, + alternateName: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: "Abbreviation or alternate name if given (ex: 'BSCS', 'MBA').", + }, + description: { + type: "string", + description: + "The program's overview/description prose. First 2-4 paragraphs of the main description, verbatim. Do not include requirements, courses, or outcome lists here.", + }, + credentialType: { + type: "string", + enum: CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ENUM, + description: "CTDL credential subclass.", + }, + subjectWebpage: { + type: "string", + description: "The canonical URL of this program's page (usually the input URL).", + }, + inLanguage: { + type: "string", + description: "BCP-47 language code of instruction (ex: 'en', 'en-US').", + }, + credentialStatusType: { + type: "string", + enum: STATUS_ENUM, + description: + "Lifecycle status. If page says nothing about deprecation/teach-out, use 'Active'.", + }, + // --- delivery & audience --- + learningDeliveryType: strArr( + "How it's delivered. Infer from '100% online', 'on campus', etc.", + DELIVERY_TYPE_ENUM + ), + audienceLevelType: strArr( + "Academic level of the intended audience.", + AUDIENCE_LEVEL_ENUM + ), + // --- time & credits --- + estimatedDuration: { + type: ["object", "null"], + properties: { + exactDuration: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: "ISO 8601 duration if a single figure is given (ex: 'P24M', 'P4Y').", + }, + minimumDuration: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: "ISO 8601, if a range or 'as fast as' is given.", + }, + maximumDuration: { type: ["string", "null"] }, + description: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: "Source text about time-to-complete, verbatim.", + }, + }, + description: + "Time to complete. Convert on-page phrases like 'most students finish in 24 months' to ISO 8601.", + }, + creditValue: { + type: ["object", "null"], + properties: { + value: { type: ["number", "null"] }, + creditUnitType: { + type: ["string", "null"], + enum: [ + "DegreeCredit", "SemesterHour", "QuarterHour", "CompetencyCredit", + "ContactHour", "ClockHour", "CarnegieUnit", "ContinuingEducationUnit", + null, + ], + }, + description: { type: ["string", "null"] }, + }, + description: "Total credits/competency-units required to complete.", + }, + // --- cost --- + estimatedCost: { + type: ["array", "null"], + items: { + type: "object", + properties: { + costType: { + type: "string", + enum: [ + "Tuition", "AggregateCost", "ApplicationFee", "EnrollmentFee", + "BooksAndSupplies", "TechnologyFee", "ProgramFee", + ], + }, + price: { type: ["number", "null"] }, + currency: { type: "string", description: "ISO 4217, ex 'USD'." }, + paymentPattern: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: "'per term', 'per credit', 'total', etc.", + }, + description: { type: ["string", "null"] }, + }, + required: ["costType", "currency"], + }, + description: "All cost figures found on the page.", + }, + // --- requirements --- + requires: { + type: ["object", "null"], + properties: { + description: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: + "Free-text summary of admission requirements as on the page.", + }, + prerequisiteCredentials: { + type: ["array", "null"], + items: { type: "string" }, + description: + "Named prerequisite credentials (ex: 'high school diploma', 'RN license', 'bachelor's degree').", + }, + yearsOfExperience: { type: ["number", "null"] }, + minimumAge: { type: ["number", "null"] }, + }, + description: "Admission / entry requirements (CTDL ConditionProfile).", + }, + // --- outcomes --- + teaches: strArr( + "Learning outcomes / competencies / skills the program teaches, one per item, verbatim from the page." + ), + occupationType: strArr( + "Career/job titles this prepares you for (ex: 'Software Developer', 'Registered Nurse'). Free text; O*NET/SOC coding is a downstream step." + ), + industryType: strArr( + "Industries mentioned (ex: 'Healthcare', 'Information Technology')." + ), + // --- structure --- + hasPart: { + type: ["array", "null"], + items: { + type: "object", + properties: { + name: { type: "string" }, + codedNotation: { type: ["string", "null"] }, + }, + required: ["name"], + }, + description: + "Courses that make up the program, if listed on the page. Name + course code.", + }, + // --- QA / relationships --- + accreditedBy: strArr("Names of accrediting bodies mentioned."), + industryCertifications: strArr( + "Third-party certifications the program includes or prepares for (ex: 'CompTIA A+', 'AWS Cloud Practitioner')." + ), + keyword: strArr("Subject keywords/tags if the page lists them."), + // --- provenance --- + _extractionNotes: { + type: ["string", "null"], + description: + "Anything relevant on the page that didn't fit a field above, or ambiguities you noticed.", + }, + }, + required: [ + "name", "description", "credentialType", "subjectWebpage", + "inLanguage", "credentialStatusType", + ], +}; + +export const ENHANCED_SYSTEM = `You are extracting structured credential metadata for the Credential Registry using CTDL (Credential Transparency Description Language). + +CTDL is a linked-data vocabulary. You will receive a program page from an educational institution and must populate a CTDL-aligned record. + +Rules: +- Populate every field for which the page provides evidence. Use null for fields with no on-page evidence. +- Quote or lightly normalize source text; never invent facts not on the page. +- For enum fields, pick the closest CTDL term; do not free-text. +- Durations: convert to ISO 8601 (P4Y = 4 years, P24M = 24 months, PT120H = 120 hours). +- Costs: extract every price you see with its unit ("per 6-month term", "total", etc.). +- If a field's evidence is on a linked sibling page (tuition tab, admissions page) that you were NOT given, leave it null and note it in _extractionNotes.`; + +export function buildEnhancedPrompt({ url, content }) { + return `Extract a CTDL record for the credential/program described on this page. + +PAGE URL: ${url} + +PAGE CONTENT (simplified markdown): + +\`\`\`markdown +${content} +\`\`\``; +} diff --git a/eval/harness/package.json b/eval/harness/package.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0236ea0 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/harness/package.json @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +{ + "name": "xtra-eval-harness", + "private": true, + "type": "module", + "dependencies": { + "@anthropic-ai/sdk": "^0.60.0", + "cheerio": "1.0.0-rc.12", + "turndown": "^7.1.3" + } +} diff --git a/eval/harness/prep-sources.mjs b/eval/harness/prep-sources.mjs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7823533 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/harness/prep-sources.mjs @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +// Generate xTRA-style simplified markdown for every .html in a directory. +import fs from "node:fs"; +import path from "node:path"; +import { prepareSource } from "./simplify.mjs"; + +const inDir = process.argv[2] || path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, "../wgu"); + +for (const slug of fs.readdirSync(inDir, { withFileTypes: true })) { + if (!slug.isDirectory()) continue; + const html = path.join(inDir, slug.name, "page.html"); + if (!fs.existsSync(html)) continue; + const { content } = await prepareSource(slug.name, html); + console.log(`${slug.name}: ${content.length} md`); +} diff --git a/eval/harness/run.mjs b/eval/harness/run.mjs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30f9538 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/harness/run.mjs @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env node +// xTRA evaluation harness +// Usage: node run.mjs [--config |all] + +import fs from "node:fs"; +import path from "node:path"; +import { parseArgs } from "node:util"; +import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk"; +import { prepareSource } from "./simplify.mjs"; +import { buildXtraPrompt, XTRA_CONFIGS } from "./xtra-prompts.mjs"; +import { + ENHANCED_SCHEMA, + ENHANCED_SYSTEM, + buildEnhancedPrompt, +} from "./enhanced-schema.mjs"; + +if (!process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY && !process.env.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN) { + console.error("Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (or ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN) to run."); + process.exit(1); +} +const client = new Anthropic(); +const MODEL = process.env.CLAUDE_MODEL || "claude-opus-4-5"; + +// Config registry — one entry per extraction variant. Add here to add a variant. +const CONFIGS = { + baseline_credential: { + schema: XTRA_CONFIGS.credential.schema, + toolName: "result", + buildPrompt: (p) => buildXtraPrompt({ ...XTRA_CONFIGS.credential, ...p }), + }, + baseline_learning_program: { + schema: XTRA_CONFIGS.learning_program.schema, + toolName: "result", + buildPrompt: (p) => buildXtraPrompt({ ...XTRA_CONFIGS.learning_program, ...p }), + }, + enhanced: { + system: ENHANCED_SYSTEM, + schema: ENHANCED_SCHEMA, + toolName: "extract_ctdl", + buildPrompt: buildEnhancedPrompt, + }, +}; + +async function runConfig(id, cfg, page) { + const t0 = Date.now(); + const msg = await client.messages.create({ + model: MODEL, + max_tokens: 8096, + system: cfg.system, + tools: [ + { + name: cfg.toolName, + description: "Return the extracted structured data.", + input_schema: cfg.schema, + }, + ], + tool_choice: { type: "tool", name: cfg.toolName }, + messages: [{ role: "user", content: cfg.buildPrompt(page) }], + }); + const toolUse = msg.content.find((b) => b.type === "tool_use"); + return { + id, + result: toolUse?.input ?? null, + usage: msg.usage, + latencyMs: Date.now() - t0, + stopReason: msg.stop_reason, + }; +} + +function summarize(r) { + const n = r.result?.items?.length ?? (r.result ? 1 : 0); + return `${r.id}: ${n} item(s), ${r.usage?.input_tokens}→${r.usage?.output_tokens} tok, ${r.latencyMs}ms`; +} + +async function main() { + const { values, positionals } = parseArgs({ + allowPositionals: true, + options: { config: { type: "string", default: "all" } }, + }); + const [slug, src] = positionals; + if (!slug || !src) { + console.error("usage: node run.mjs [--config |all]"); + process.exit(1); + } + + const page = await prepareSource(slug, src); + console.error(`[${slug}] markdown ${page.content.length} chars from ${page.url}`); + + const ids = + values.config === "all" ? Object.keys(CONFIGS) : values.config.split(","); + const unknown = ids.filter((id) => !CONFIGS[id]); + if (unknown.length) { + console.error( + `unknown --config ${unknown.join(",")}; valid: ${Object.keys(CONFIGS).join(", ")}` + ); + process.exit(1); + } + const runs = await Promise.all( + ids.map((id) => runConfig(id, CONFIGS[id], page)) + ); + + const out = { + slug, + url: page.url, + model: MODEL, + sourceMarkdownChars: page.content.length, + results: Object.fromEntries(runs.map((r) => [r.id, r.result])), + // legacy keys expected by scoring/field-matrix + baseline: runs.find((r) => r.id === "baseline_credential")?.result ?? null, + enhanced: runs.find((r) => r.id === "enhanced")?.result ?? null, + _meta: runs.map(({ id, usage, latencyMs, stopReason }) => ({ + id, + usage, + latencyMs, + stopReason, + })), + }; + + const outPath = path.join(page.dir, "extracted.json"); + fs.writeFileSync(outPath, JSON.stringify(out, null, 2)); + console.error(`[${slug}] wrote ${outPath}`); + runs.forEach((r) => console.error(` ${summarize(r)}`)); +} + +main().catch((e) => { + console.error(e); + process.exit(1); +}); diff --git a/eval/harness/simplify.mjs b/eval/harness/simplify.mjs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a3062a --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/harness/simplify.mjs @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +// HTML → simplified markdown, mirroring ctdl-xtra/server/src/extraction/browser.ts:simplifyHtml + toMarkdown +import fs from "node:fs"; +import path from "node:path"; +import * as cheerio from "cheerio"; +import TurndownService from "turndown"; + +export const WGU_DIR = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, "../wgu"); + +export function simplifyHtml(html) { + const $ = cheerio.load(html); + $("head").empty(); + $("script, style, noscript, link, footer, nav, header, iframe:empty").remove(); + $("*").each((_, el) => { + for (const a of Object.keys(el.attribs || {})) { + if (a !== "href") delete el.attribs[a]; + } + }); + $("div").each((_, el) => { + const $el = $(el); + const first = $el.children().first(); + if ($el.children().length === 1 && first.is("div")) $el.replaceWith(first); + }); + return $.html(); +} + +const td = new TurndownService({ linkReferenceStyle: "full" }); + +export function simplifiedMarkdown(html) { + return td.turndown(simplifyHtml(html)); +} + +// Load HTML from URL or file, simplify to markdown, persist the model input, return {url, content}. +export async function prepareSource(slug, src) { + let html, url; + if (/^https?:\/\//.test(src)) { + const res = await fetch(src, { + headers: { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh) xtra-eval-harness" }, + }); + if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`fetch ${src}: ${res.status}`); + html = await res.text(); + url = src; + } else { + html = fs.readFileSync(src, "utf8"); + const urlFile = src.replace(/\.html?$/i, "") + ".url"; + url = + urlFile !== src && fs.existsSync(urlFile) + ? fs.readFileSync(urlFile, "utf8").trim() + : `file://${path.basename(src)}`; + } + const content = simplifiedMarkdown(html); + const dir = path.join(WGU_DIR, slug); + fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true }); + fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, "model-input.md"), content); + return { url, content, dir }; +} diff --git a/eval/harness/xtra-prompts.mjs b/eval/harness/xtra-prompts.mjs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4397bf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/harness/xtra-prompts.mjs @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +// Faithful transliteration of ctdl-xtra's prompts + schemas from +// ctdl-xtra/common/catalogueTypes.ts + server/src/extraction/llm/extractEntityData.ts +// Goal: reproduce xTRA's baseline extraction behavior on Claude, unchanged. + +const CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ENUM = [ + "AcademicCertificate", "ApprenticeshipCertificate", "AssociateDegree", + "BachelorDegree", "Badge", "BasicTechnicalCertificate", "Certificate", + "CertificateOfCompletion", "CertificateOfParticipation", "Certification", + "Degree", "DigitalBadge", "Diploma", "DoctoralDegree", + "GeneralEducationDevelopment", "GeneralEducationLevel1Certificate", + "GeneralEducationLevel2Certificate", "HigherEducationLevel1Certificate", + "HigherEducationLevel2Certificate", "JourneymanCertificate", "License", + "MasterCertificate", "MasterDegree", "MicroCredential", "OpenBadge", + "PostBaccalaureateCertificate", "PostMasterCertificate", + "PreApprenticeshipCertificate", "ProfessionalCertificate", + "ProfessionalDoctorate", "ProficiencyCertificate", + "QualityAssuranceCredential", "ResearchDoctorate", + "SecondaryEducationCertificate", "SecondarySchoolDiploma", + "TechnicalLevel1Certificate", "TechnicalLevel2Certificate", + "TechnicalLevel3Certificate", "WorkBasedLearningCertificate", +]; + +// --- CREDENTIALS baseline (verbatim from catalogueTypes.ts:431-546) --- + +const CRED_PROPS = { + credential_name: { + description: + 'name for the credential or certificate (example: "Computer Science"). Don not include the type of credential in the name. Do not confuse the category of the credential with the specific name.', + required: true, + }, + credential_description: { + description: + "the description of the credential. Can be a short description or a long description, make sure to include all the details of the credential such as the opportunities it provides or descriptions of roles in the industry.", + required: true, + }, + credential_type: { description: "the type of credential.", required: true }, + language: { + description: + "The language in full (example: 'English', 'Spanish', 'German', etc.)", + required: false, + }, +}; + +const CRED_DESIRED_OUTPUT = ` + We are looking for a list of credentials that are offered by the institution. + Credentials are prof of completion of a course or learning program. They can be diplomas, certificates, badges, etc. + If found, take each item exactly as it is in the page and return them. Skip everything else, just the credential list. + Note that pages can show options to get other credentials, we only need the ones directly related to the course or learning program. + Do not confuse credentials with courses or skills or learning outcomes. Do not list Certifications, those are not credentials. Return only the credentials that are offered by the institution. + Ignore stackable certificates. + `; + +export const CRED_SCHEMA = { + type: "object", + properties: { + items: { + type: "array", + items: { + type: "object", + properties: { + credential_name: { type: "string" }, + credential_description: { type: "string" }, + credential_type: { type: "string", enum: CREDENTIAL_TYPE_ENUM }, + language: { type: "string" }, + }, + required: [ + "credential_name", + "credential_description", + "credential_type", + "language", + ], + }, + }, + }, + required: ["items"], +}; + +// --- LEARNING_PROGRAMS baseline (verbatim from catalogueTypes.ts:287-327) --- + +const PROG_PROPS = { + learning_program_id: { + description: + "code/identifier for the learning program. Unless it is clearly identified as such in the page, default to the name of the learning program.", + required: true, + }, + learning_program_name: { + description: + 'name for the learning program (example: "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science")', + required: true, + }, + learning_program_description: { + description: `the description of the learning program. + Pages often include other sections aside from the basic description, for example containing program requirements, + restrictions, etc. We don't want any of that - we only want the program description (directly extracted from the page). + You should take only the first few paragraphs of the description. + If there are links, only extract the text. + `, + required: true, + }, +}; + +export const PROG_SCHEMA = { + type: "object", + properties: { + items: { + type: "array", + items: { + type: "object", + properties: { + learning_program_id: { type: "string" }, + learning_program_name: { type: "string" }, + learning_program_description: { type: "string" }, + }, + required: [ + "learning_program_id", + "learning_program_name", + "learning_program_description", + ], + }, + }, + }, + required: ["items"], +}; + +// --- Prompt assembly (mirrors extractEntityData.ts:getBasePrompt + main body) --- + +function buildFieldList(props) { + return Object.entries(props) + .map(([k, p]) => `${k}: ${p.description}${p.required ? " (REQUIRED)" : ""}`) + .join("\n"); +} + +export function buildXtraPrompt({ entityName, desiredOutput, props, url, content }) { + return ` +Your goal is to extract ${entityName} data from this page. + Extract the data EXACTLY as it shows up in the page. + NEVER paraphrase, rewrite or change content unless requested. + +${desiredOutput || ""} +We are looking for the following fields: +${buildFieldList(props)} + +PAGE URL: + +${url} + +SIMPLIFIED PAGE CONTENT: + +\`\`\`markdown +${content} +\`\`\` + +`; +} + +export const XTRA_CONFIGS = { + credential: { + entityName: "credential", + desiredOutput: CRED_DESIRED_OUTPUT, + props: CRED_PROPS, + schema: CRED_SCHEMA, + }, + learning_program: { + entityName: "learning program", + desiredOutput: "", + props: PROG_PROPS, + schema: PROG_SCHEMA, + }, +}; diff --git a/eval/scoring/field-matrix.csv b/eval/scoring/field-matrix.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6286836 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/scoring/field-matrix.csv @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +page,ctdl_field,on_page,registry_has,baseline_attempted,baseline_correct,enhanced_populated,enhanced_correct,verdict +bs-computer-science,name,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +bs-computer-science,description,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +bs-computer-science,credentialType,Y,Y,Y,partial,Y,Y,correct +bs-computer-science,subjectWebpage,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,inLanguage,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +bs-computer-science,credentialStatusType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,learningDeliveryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,audienceLevelType,Y,Y,N,na,N,N,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,estimatedDuration,Y,Y,N,na,Y,partial,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,creditValue,Y,N,N,na,N,N,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,estimatedCost,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,requires,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,teaches,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,occupationType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,industryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,hasPart,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,accreditedBy,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-computer-science,industryCertifications,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,name,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +mba,description,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +mba,credentialType,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +mba,subjectWebpage,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,inLanguage,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +mba,credentialStatusType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,learningDeliveryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,audienceLevelType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,estimatedDuration,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,creditValue,N,N,N,na,N,na,not-attempted +mba,estimatedCost,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,requires,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,teaches,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,occupationType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,industryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,hasPart,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,accreditedBy,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +mba,industryCertifications,N,N,N,na,N,na,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,name,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +ms-nursing-education,description,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +ms-nursing-education,credentialType,Y,Y,Y,partial,Y,partial,correct +ms-nursing-education,subjectWebpage,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,inLanguage,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +ms-nursing-education,credentialStatusType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,learningDeliveryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,audienceLevelType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,estimatedDuration,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,creditValue,Y,N,N,na,Y,partial,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,estimatedCost,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,requires,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,teaches,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,occupationType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,industryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,hasPart,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,accreditedBy,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +ms-nursing-education,industryCertifications,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,name,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +bs-accounting,description,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +bs-accounting,credentialType,Y,Y,Y,partial,Y,partial,correct +bs-accounting,subjectWebpage,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,inLanguage,Y,Y,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +bs-accounting,credentialStatusType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,learningDeliveryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,audienceLevelType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,estimatedDuration,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,creditValue,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,estimatedCost,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,requires,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,teaches,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,occupationType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,industryType,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,hasPart,Y,N,N,na,Y,partial,not-attempted +bs-accounting,accreditedBy,Y,Y,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +bs-accounting,industryCertifications,Y,N,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,name,Y,na,Y,N,Y,Y,format-wrong +cert-leadership,description,Y,na,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +cert-leadership,credentialType,Y,na,Y,Y,Y,Y,correct +cert-leadership,subjectWebpage,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,inLanguage,Y,na,Y,N,Y,N,format-wrong +cert-leadership,credentialStatusType,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,learningDeliveryType,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,audienceLevelType,N,na,N,na,N,na,not-attempted +cert-leadership,estimatedDuration,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,creditValue,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,estimatedCost,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,requires,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,teaches,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,occupationType,N,na,N,na,N,na,not-attempted +cert-leadership,industryType,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,hasPart,Y,na,N,na,Y,Y,not-attempted +cert-leadership,accreditedBy,N,na,N,na,N,na,not-attempted +cert-leadership,industryCertifications,N,na,N,na,N,na,not-attempted diff --git a/eval/scoring/multi-extractor-coverage.md b/eval/scoring/multi-extractor-coverage.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8678760 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/scoring/multi-extractor-coverage.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# Would running xTRA's other extractors close the gap? + +xTRA classifies each page into one `CatalogueType` and runs only that extractor. Question: if we ran **all four extractors on the same WGU degree page**, how many of the 14 not-attempted CTDL fields would be covered? + +Field inventory across all four extractors (union = 20 fields): + +| Extractor | Fields | +|---|---| +| Credential | `credential_name`, `credential_description`, `credential_type`, `language` | +| LearningProgram | `learning_program_id`, `learning_program_name`, `learning_program_description` | +| Course | `course_id`, `course_name`, `course_description`, `course_prerequisites`, `course_credits_min`, `course_credits_max`, `course_credits_type`, `course_ceu_credits`, `course_non_credit` | +| Competency | `text`, `competency_framework`, `competency_category`, `language` | + +Mapping the 14 not-attempted CTDL fields to any extractor field: + +| CTDL field | Any extractor field maps? | Which | Fit | +|---|:---:|---|---| +| `subjectWebpage` | ✗ | — | none | +| `credentialStatusType` | ✗ | — | none | +| `learningDeliveryType` | ✗ | — | none | +| `audienceLevelType` | ✗ | — | none | +| `estimatedDuration` | ✗ | — | none | +| `estimatedCost` | ✗ | — | none | +| `creditValue` | ~ | Course `credits_min/max/type` | poor — course-level credits, not program totals | +| `requires` (admission) | ~ | Course `course_prerequisites` | poor — prompt is course-prereq specific ("corequisites leave blank") | +| `teaches` (competencies) | ✓ | Competency `text` | **good** — Competency extractor already has `exploreDuringExtraction` and would find WGU's outcome bullets | +| `occupationType` | ✗ | — | none | +| `industryType` | ✗ | — | none | +| `hasPart` (courses) | ~ | Course `course_id`/`name` | partial — Course extractor expects one page per course; WGU lists 37 course names on one program page with no IDs | +| `accreditedBy` | ✗ | — | none | +| `industryCertifications` | ✗ | — | none | + +**Result: 1 clean win, 3 poor-fit partials, 10 with no home in any extractor.** + +## Takeaway + +Running the Competency extractor alongside Credential on the same page **would** recover `teaches` — that's a real, cheap improvement (`exploreDuringExtraction` is already built for it). But **10 of 14 gap fields have no field in any of the four schemas**: cost, duration, delivery, audience level, occupations, industries, accreditation, status, subject webpage, and industry certifications simply don't exist in `common/catalogueTypes.ts`. + +So "expand which extractors run" and "widen the schema" are **complementary, not alternatives**: + +- **Multi-extractor pass** (run Competency + Credential together on program pages) → recovers `teaches`, ~1 field · **effort XS** (config change: enable `exploreDuringExtraction` on Credential type or add a "companion extractors" list) +- **Schema expansion** (P1) → recovers the other 10–13 · **effort S** + +The strongest version does both: widen the Credential schema *and* run the Competency extractor as a companion, because competencies benefit from the dedicated presence-check + phrase-verification logic that Competency already has. diff --git a/eval/scoring/scorecards.md b/eval/scoring/scorecards.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab7ce48 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/scoring/scorecards.md @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +# ctdl-xtra Evaluation — Scorecards + +## Headline numbers + +**xTRA baseline captures 7/84 CTDL fields present on WGU pages (8.3% recall). Enhanced schema captures 76/84 (90.5% recall).** + +Counting partial matches as captures: baseline **10/84 (11.9%)**, enhanced **81/84 (96.4%)**. + +**5/5 baseline `credential_name` values are wrong** due to the "strip type from name" prompt instruction — every extracted name drops the degree/credential type (`"Computer Science"` instead of `"Bachelor of Science, Computer Science"`; `"Business Leadership"` instead of `"Business Leadership Certificate"`), directly contradicting `ceterms:name` which is the full credential title. + +**5/5 baseline `language` values are wrong-format** — xTRA emits `"English"` where CTDL `ceterms:inLanguage` requires a BCP-47 tag (`"en"`). + +The baseline schema simply does not attempt **14 of 18** page-scrapeable CTDL fields. Of the 4 it does attempt, only `description` is reliably correct (5/5). + +--- + +## 1. Per-page recall + +| page | on-page fields | baseline populated | baseline correct | enhanced populated | enhanced correct | baseline recall | enhanced recall | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| bs-computer-science | 18 | 4 | 1 (+1p) | 16 | 15 (+1p) | 5.6% | 83.3% | +| mba | 16 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 12.5% | 100.0% | +| ms-nursing-education | 18 | 4 | 1 (+1p) | 18 | 16 (+2p) | 5.6% | 88.9% | +| bs-accounting | 18 | 4 | 1 (+1p) | 18 | 16 (+2p) | 5.6% | 88.9% | +| cert-leadership | 14 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 14.3% | 92.9% | +| **TOTAL** | **84** | **20** | **7 (+3p)** | **82** | **76 (+5p)** | **8.3%** | **90.5%** | + +`(+Np)` = additional partial matches (correct but less specific / incomplete). Recall percentages are strict-correct ÷ on-page. + +--- + +## 2. Per-field reliability + +| CTDL field | on-page (0–5) | registry has (of 4°) | baseline correct | enhanced correct | +|---|---:|---:|---:|---:| +| name | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +| description | 5 | 4 | **5** | 5 | +| credentialType | 5 | 4 | 2 (+3p) | 3 (+2p) | +| subjectWebpage | 5 | 4 | n/a | 5 | +| inLanguage | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | +| credentialStatusType | 5 | 4 | n/a | 5 | +| learningDeliveryType | 5 | 4 | n/a | 5 | +| audienceLevelType | 4 | 4 | n/a | 3 | +| estimatedDuration | 5 | 4 | n/a | 4 (+1p) | +| creditValue | 4 | 0 | n/a | 2 (+1p) | +| estimatedCost | 5 | 4 | n/a | 5 | +| requires (admission) | 5 | 4 | n/a | 5 | +| teaches (competencies) | 5 | 0 | n/a | 5 | +| occupationType | 4 | 4 | n/a | 4 | +| industryType | 5 | 4 | n/a | 5 | +| hasPart (courses) | 5 | 1 | n/a | 4 (+1p) | +| accreditedBy | 4 | 2 | n/a | 4 | +| industryCertifications | 3 | 0 | n/a | 3 | + +° Registry column counts the 4 degree records only; cert-leadership has no published Registry record (marked n/a in matrix). `n/a` in baseline column = field not in xTRA's 4-field schema. + +**Observations:** +- Baseline's only reliably correct field is `description` (5/5). +- Enhanced achieves 5/5 on 10 of 18 fields. +- Weakest enhanced field is `creditValue` (2/4) — WGU's competency-unit model rarely states a program-total credit count on the page. +- Enhanced missed `audienceLevelType` for bs-computer-science (left null despite "bachelor's degree" being explicit) — extractor inconsistency, not a page gap. +- Enhanced captures fields WGU itself doesn't publish to the Registry: `teaches` (0 registry, 5 enhanced), `industryCertifications` (0 registry, 3 enhanced), `hasPart` course lists (1 registry, 5 enhanced). + +--- + +## 3. Failure taxonomy — baseline + +90 total (page, field) cells. 7 correct, **83 misses** bucketed: + +| Bucket | Count | Share of misses | Example | +|---|---:|---:|---| +| **not-attempted (schema gap)** | 70 | 84.3% | `estimatedCost` — bs-computer-science page states "$4,125 per six-month term + $200 e-books fee" plainly; xTRA schema has no cost field. 64 of these 70 cells have on-page evidence going uncaptured. | +| **wrong-format** | 10 | 12.0% | `name` × 5: prompt instruction strips credential type → `"Accounting"` instead of `"Bachelor of Science, Accounting"`. `inLanguage` × 5: emits natural-language `"English"` instead of BCP-47 `"en"`. | +| **wrong-CTDL-value** | 3 | 3.6% | `credentialType` for bs-cs, msn, bs-acct: baseline emits parent type `BachelorDegree` / `MasterDegree` where page + Registry support the subtype `BachelorOfScienceDegree` / `MasterOfScienceDegree`. Valid CTDL, but loses precision. | +| **on-page-but-missed** | 0 | 0% | — (every attempted field found *something*) | +| **hallucinated** | 0 | 0% | — (no fabricated values observed) | + +**Takeaway:** baseline's problem is overwhelmingly **schema coverage**, not extraction quality. The 4-field schema ignores 78% of the CTDL signal present on a typical program page. Of the 4 fields it does extract, 2 are systematically mis-formatted by prompt design. + +--- + +## 4. Notable enhanced-extraction wins + +Concrete examples of what the 22-field schema captures that baseline structurally cannot: + +1. **37 courses enumerated for BS Computer Science** (`hasPart`) — full course list from "Introduction to Computer Science" through "Advanced Java", matching the 37-course count stated on page and the 37 `targetLearningOpportunity` refs in WGU's Registry record. +2. **CCNE accreditation with URL for MSN** (`accreditedBy`) — `{name: "Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education", acronym: "CCNE", subjectWebpage: "http://www.ccneaccreditation.org"}`. WGU's own Registry record for this program does *not* populate `accreditedBy`. +3. **P12M ISO minimum duration + $9,610 aggregate cost for MBA** (`estimatedDuration`, `estimatedCost`) — parsed "as little as 12 months" → `minimumDuration: "P12M"` and captured the advertised one-year total alongside the $4,805/term breakdown. +4. **Full admission ConditionProfile for MSN** (`requires`) — BSN degree + active unencumbered RN license (state-of-residence or employment) + criminal background check via DISA + immunization proof + 5-year transfer-credit window. Registry record has only a generic "must satisfy learning opportunities" stub. +5. **P4M / 9 credits / $1,125 total for cert-leadership** (`estimatedDuration`, `creditValue`, `estimatedCost`) — the certificate page's compact facts table fully structured, including the $499/mo overtime subscription and 4×$281.25 installment plan. +6. **120-credit total + 3 embedded Badgr certificates for BS Accounting** (`creditValue`, `hasPart`) — pulled 120 credits from FAQ text and captured the three stackable WGU certificates (Accounting, Strategic Thinking & Innovation, Leadership) with their badgr.com URLs. + +--- + +## 5. Enhanced-extraction misses (for completeness) + +| page | field | issue | +|---|---|---| +| bs-computer-science | audienceLevelType | Left null; should be `BachelorsDegreeLevel` (trivially derivable, extractor was inconsistent — filled it for bs-accounting). | +| bs-computer-science | creditValue | Left null; page gives "37 courses × 3–4 units" but no total. Defensible omission. | +| bs-computer-science | estimatedDuration | Description-only, no ISO value (competency-based; page gives no fixed duration). Partial. | +| ms-nursing-education | credentialType | `MasterDegree` — page/Registry support `MasterOfScienceDegree`. Partial. | +| ms-nursing-education | creditValue | `value: null`, description infers ~36. Partial. | +| bs-accounting | credentialType | `BachelorDegree` — page/Registry support `BachelorOfScienceDegree`. Partial. | +| bs-accounting | hasPart | 40 courses summarized in one CourseSet blob rather than enumerated individually. Partial. | +| cert-leadership | inLanguage | `"English"` — should be `"en"`. Same format bug as baseline; enhanced schema didn't enforce BCP-47 here. | + +--- + +*Source data: `runs/*.json` (baseline + enhanced extractions), `wgu-test-pages/*.md` (on-page annotations), `wgu-ground-truth/*.summary.md` + `INDEX.md` (Registry records). Full 90-row detail: `scoring/field-matrix.csv`.* diff --git a/eval/wgu/INDEX.md b/eval/wgu/INDEX.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eef70a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/INDEX.md @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +# WGU Test Pages — Index + +Captured 2026-07-01 for reproducible CTDL-extraction eval runs. + +Each program has two files: `.html` (raw source, `curl -sL`) and `.md` (readable markdown + CTDL field annotations at top). + +| Slug | Resolved URL | HTML bytes | Credential type | +|---|---|---:|---| +| `bs-computer-science` | https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html | 470,464 | Bachelor's | +| `mba` | https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program.html | 405,510 | Master's | +| `ms-nursing-education` | https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/bsn-to-msn-nursing-education-masters-program.html | 421,483 | Master's | +| `bs-accounting` | https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-bachelors-program.html | 447,914 | Bachelor's | +| `cert-leadership` | https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/certificates/leadership.html | 230,578 | Certificate | + +## Page-structure notes + +**Platform:** All five pages are Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) — server-side rendered, NOT a JS SPA. Full body text is present in the raw HTML (verifiable by `

` count: 54–189 per page). No client-side hydration needed to read content; `curl` alone is sufficient for reproducible extraction. + +**Tabs & accordions:** Heavy use everywhere. All degree pages use `role="tab"` (47–49 per page) for the top nav (Overview / Courses / Cost & Time / Career Outlook / Admissions). Course lists and FAQs live inside `.accordion` / `.cmp-accordion` blocks (54–252 accordion markers per page). All tab/accordion panel content IS in the initial HTML — collapsed via CSS/ARIA, not lazy-loaded — so a headless browser is not required, but naive text-extraction that respects `aria-hidden` may miss it. + +**JSON-LD structured data:** Present on every page (`application/ld+json`): 1 block on CS, 2 on MBA/MSN/Accounting, 3 on the certificate. Likely `schema.org/Course` or `EducationalOccupationalProgram` — a high-signal shortcut for CTDL mapping. Worth extracting separately. + +**PDF program guides:** Each degree page links to exactly 1 PDF (the official Program Guidebook, e.g. `.../program-guides/information-technology/BSCS.pdf`). The certificate page links 4 PDFs. These PDFs contain the authoritative competency-unit counts and course codes that the marketing HTML omits. + +**Per-page quirks:** +- `bs-computer-science` — richest CTDL surface: ABET accreditation, 5 embedded certifications (mix of industry + WGU-issued), 37 named courses with descriptions, explicit CU-per-term figure, precalculus prerequisite. Also references a distinct accelerated BS+MS pathway (separate credential). +- `mba` — cleanest/shortest degree page. 11 courses fully listed. No embedded certs. No credit-hour figure. Large FAQ accordion (~15 Q&A). +- `ms-nursing-education` — only page with a **blended** delivery mode (online + required in-person field experience) and licensure prereq (active RN license). Transfer-credit cap explicitly quantified (17 credits / 47%). CCNE accreditation. +- `bs-accounting` — largest course list (40). Includes an interactive tuition-calculator widget (values are static in HTML). `isPreparationFor` → CPA exam is explicit. 3 embedded WGU certificates. Heaviest accordion use (172). +- `cert-leadership` — half the byte size of the degree pages; simpler layout. Only page with an explicit **credit-hour** figure ("9 total credits"), fixed total price, monthly-subscription overrun pricing, and hardware/OS entry requirements. No accreditation body named. Stackability into WGU bachelor's is stated. + +## Common CTDL-field coverage across all 5 + +| CTDL concept | CS | MBA | MSN-Ed | Acct | Cert | +|---|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:| +| name / description | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| credentialType | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| estimatedDuration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| estimatedCost | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| creditValue (numeric) | ~ (CU/term) | ✗ | ~ (implied) | ~ (FAQ) | ✓ | +| entryCondition | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| deliveryType | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (blended) | ✓ | ✓ | +| teaches (competencies) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| hasPart (courses) | ✓ (37) | ✓ (11) | ✓ (15) | ✓ (40) | ✓ (3) | +| occupationType | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ (industries only) | +| accreditedBy | ABET | ACBSP | CCNE | ACBSP | ✗ | +| embedded credentials | ✓ (5) | ✗ | ✓ (1) | ✓ (3) | n/a | +# WGU Ground-Truth CTDL Records + +Canonical CTDL JSON-LD records published by Western Governors University to the Credential Registry. + +**WGU Organization:** [Credential Finder Org #34](https://credentialfinder.org/Organization/34/) · CTID `ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a` · [Registry](https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a) + +--- + +| # | Target | Actual credential name | CTDL type | CTID | Credential Finder | Registry JSON-LD | wgu.edu page (subjectWebpage) | Local file | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| 1 | Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (BSCS_202412) | `ceterms:BachelorOfScienceDegree` | `ce-8f5a2e25-7a30-4eb0-ab9e-ab441ac928c6` | [link](https://credentialfinder.org/resources/ce-8f5a2e25-7a30-4eb0-ab9e-ab441ac928c6) | [link](https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-8f5a2e25-7a30-4eb0-ab9e-ab441ac928c6) | [https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/bachelors-programs.html#_](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/bachelors-programs.html#_) | `bs-computer-science.json` | +| 2 | Master of Business Administration | Master of Business Administration (MBA_201404) | `ceterms:MasterDegree` | `ce-6977cef9-298a-4f1e-bdac-d66509887ebf` | [link](https://credentialfinder.org/resources/ce-6977cef9-298a-4f1e-bdac-d66509887ebf) | [link](https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-6977cef9-298a-4f1e-bdac-d66509887ebf) | [https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/masters-programs.html](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/masters-programs.html) | `mba.json` | +| 3 | Master of Science, Nursing – Education | Master of Science, Nursing - Education (BSN to MSN) (MSNUED_202003) | `ceterms:MasterOfScienceDegree` | `ce-6f236de1-9651-471a-9773-d9c7087b92c3` | [link](https://credentialfinder.org/resources/ce-6f236de1-9651-471a-9773-d9c7087b92c3) | [link](https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-6f236de1-9651-471a-9773-d9c7087b92c3) | [https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/masters-programs.html](https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/masters-programs.html) | `msn-education.json` | +| 4 | Bachelor of Science, Accounting | Bachelor of Science, Accounting (BSACC_202503) | `ceterms:BachelorOfScienceDegree` | `ce-b75970c9-d352-46a0-b67d-3256c9cdbb31` | [link](https://credentialfinder.org/resources/ce-b75970c9-d352-46a0-b67d-3256c9cdbb31) | [link](https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-b75970c9-d352-46a0-b67d-3256c9cdbb31) | [https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/bachelors-programs.html](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/bachelors-programs.html) | `bs-accounting.json` | +| 5 | WGU Certificate: AWS Cloud DevOps (OpenBadge / micro-credential) | WGU Certificate: AWS Cloud DevOps v1.1 | `ceterms:OpenBadge` | `ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159` | [link](https://credentialfinder.org/resources/ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159) | [link](https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159) | [https://api.badgr.io/public/badges/a9STuosRQuOqLKKKYhB9dQ](https://api.badgr.io/public/badges/a9STuosRQuOqLKKKYhB9dQ) | `cert-aws-cloud-devops.json` | + +## Notes on selection + +WGU publishes **many versions** of each program to the Registry (each catalog revision gets its own CTID, tagged with a `_YYYYMM` suffix). The versions selected here are the newest available as of retrieval: + +1. **BS Computer Science** — `BSCS_202412` chosen (newest; older `BSCS_202011` = `ce-0df1babf-43fa-4d94-a7c3-84f6b8785c32` also exists). +2. **MBA** — `MBA_201404` is the only standalone/generic MBA in the Registry. Specialization variants exist (e.g., MBA Healthcare Administration `ce-edeac207-ee37-43b1-a925-dd0f83927989`). +3. **MSN – Education** — `MSNUED_202003` (BSN-to-MSN track) chosen as newest MSN-Education. RN-to-MSN Education variant `MSRNNUEDUG_202302` = `ce-8e533a1f-52bf-440e-937d-cb8f8d381c06` also available. +4. **BS Accounting** — `BSACC_202503` chosen (newest standalone; older `BSBAAC_*` variants under Business Administration umbrella also exist). +5. **Certificate / micro-credential** — `WGU Certificate: AWS Cloud DevOps v1.1` (type `ceterms:OpenBadge`) chosen as a representative non-degree credential. Siblings: AWS Cloud Security `ce-bf50297b-9eb1-4849-a8f6-f466dc3ea420`, Azure Cloud DevOps `ce-c0953e53-17bd-4261-ab2e-47cd9e902a53`. + +## Field-population overview + +| Property | bs-computer-science | mba | msn-education | bs-accounting | cert-aws-cloud-devops | +|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| +| `ceterms:accreditedBy` | ✓ | | | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:alternateName` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:assessmentDeliveryType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:audienceLevelType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:availableOnlineAt` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:copyrightHolder` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:credentialId` | | | | | ✓ | +| `ceterms:credentialStatusType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:ctid` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:dateEffective` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:degreeMajor` | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:description` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:estimatedCost` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:estimatedDuration` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:hasPart` | ✓ | | | | | +| `ceterms:image` | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | +| `ceterms:inLanguage` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:industryType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:instructionalProgramType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:isPreparationFor` | | | | | ✓ | +| `ceterms:keyword` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:learningDeliveryType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:name` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:occupationType` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:offeredBy` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:ownedBy` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:requires` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:revokedBy` | | | | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:subjectWebpage` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | +| `ceterms:supersedes` | | | | ✓ | | +| `ceterms:usesVerificationService` | | | | | ✓ | diff --git a/eval/wgu/README.md b/eval/wgu/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f33bf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# WGU test data — one directory per credential + +Each `/` contains everything for that credential, named by role in the pipeline: + +| File | What it is | Where it came from | +|---|---|---| +| `page.html` | Raw wgu.edu program page | `curl` on the live URL | +| `page-annotated.md` | Readable markdown of the page + a hand-annotated "CTDL-relevant content on this page" section listing every fact that maps to a CTDL field | Manual annotation — this is the **on-page ground truth** for scoring | +| `model-input.md` | The page after xTRA's `simplifyHtml`→`turndown` — the exact text the LLM sees | `harness/simplify.mjs` on `page.html` | +| `registry.json` | WGU's own hand-published CTDL JSON-LD record | `GET credentialengineregistry.org/resources/` — the **Registry ground truth** | +| `registry-summary.md` | Flattened list of every populated `ceterms:*` property in `registry.json` | Derived from the JSON for readability | +| `extracted.json` | What the harness extracted: `{baseline, enhanced, results, _meta}` | `harness/run.mjs` on `model-input.md` | + +`cert-leadership/` has `registry-proxy-aws-devops.*` instead of `registry.*` — the Leadership Certificate isn't in the Registry, so a different WGU cert (AWS Cloud DevOps OpenBadge) is included as a shape reference; scoring for that page is on-page-only. + +`INDEX.md` — the CTID/URL mapping table + Registry field-population matrix. `RUN-NOTES.md` — model, cost, latency. diff --git a/eval/wgu/RUN-NOTES.md b/eval/wgu/RUN-NOTES.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edb56c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/RUN-NOTES.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# Extraction Runs — Notes + +## Method + +For each of 5 WGU pages: + +1. **Source prep** (`harness/prep-sources.mjs`): saved HTML → `simplifyHtml` (cheerio: strip head/script/style/nav/footer, drop all attrs except `href`, collapse divs) → `turndown` → simplified markdown. This mirrors `ctdl-xtra/server/src/extraction/browser.ts:simplifiedMarkdown` exactly. +2. **Baseline extraction**: apply xTRA's verbatim credential prompt + 4-field schema (from `common/catalogueTypes.ts:431-546`, typos and contradictions preserved) to the simplified markdown. +3. **Enhanced extraction**: apply a ~22-field CTDL-aligned schema with a proper system message, typed nested objects, and enum vocabularies (see `harness/enhanced-schema.mjs`). + +Extractions were run via `harness/run.mjs` against the Anthropic API. + +## Pages + +| slug | URL | source markdown | +|---|---|---:| +| bs-computer-science | https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html | 44,384 chars | +| mba | https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program.html | 27,172 chars | +| ms-nursing-education | https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/bsn-to-msn-nursing-education-masters-program.html | 37,757 chars | +| bs-accounting | https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-bachelors-program.html | 49,862 chars | +| cert-leadership | https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/certificates/leadership.html | 12,574 chars | + +## Model + +`claude-opus-4-5` via the Anthropic API (`harness/run.mjs`). xTRA's own default is `gpt-5.4-mini`. + +## API-run token/latency (all 3 configs per page) + +| slug | baseline-cred | baseline-prog | enhanced | total tok | +|---|---|---|---|---:| +| bs-computer-science | 11117→195, 6.6s | 10670→350, 9.7s | 12532→2024, 35.8s | 36,888 | +| mba | 7878→188, 7.2s | 7431→182, 5.1s | 9293→1471, 28.4s | 26,443 | +| ms-nursing-education | 9870→264, 8.2s | 9423→315, 12.6s | 11285→1786, 33.3s | 32,943 | +| bs-accounting | 12075→165, 7.1s | 11628→288, 9.0s | 13490→2166, 36.5s | 39,812 | +| cert-leadership | 4564→181, 3.1s | 4117→191, 3.4s | 5979→1306, 18.5s | 16,338 | + +Baseline `credential_name` values (5/5 stripped of degree type, confirming convention mismatch): `Computer Science`, `Business Administration`, `Nursing Education (BSN to MSN)`, `Accounting`, `Business Leadership`. Enhanced populated 16–20/20 fields per page. + +## Outputs + +`wgu//extracted.json` — `{slug, url, sourceMarkdownChars, baseline:{items:[]}, enhanced:{...}}` +`wgu//model-input.md` — the exact markdown fed to the extractor diff --git a/eval/wgu/bs-accounting/extracted.json b/eval/wgu/bs-accounting/extracted.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5ced13 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/bs-accounting/extracted.json @@ -0,0 +1,377 @@ +{ + "slug": "bs-accounting", + "url": "file://bs-accounting.html", + "model": "claude-opus-4-5", + "sourceMarkdownChars": 49862, + "baseline": { + "items": [ + { + "credential_name": "Accounting", + "credential_description": "WGU's Bachelor of Science in Accounting is also the first step toward your CPA certification. Continuing on to earn your Master of Accounting (also known as Master of Accountancy) from an online college for accounting will help you meet the 150 semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam in most states. The CPA license gives you additional experience and credentials, boosting your résumé and qualifying you for elite positions in finance and business.", + "credential_type": "BachelorDegree", + "language": "English" + } + ] + }, + "baselineProgram": { + "items": [ + { + "learning_program_id": "Bachelor of Science in Accounting", + "learning_program_name": "Bachelor of Science in Accounting", + "learning_program_description": "Every business relies on accountants to help them meet regulations, achieve financial security, and make money. This accounting degree ensures you will stand out from the competition with your knowledge of GAAP, ledgers, journal entries, and more. A knack for numbers and a passion for financial performance can help you get into a career where you're sure to thrive and make a difference. This online accounting degree empowers you to help organizations meet standards and obey laws, benefiting individuals, companies, and entire communities.\n\nWGU's Bachelor of Science in Accounting is also the first step toward your CPA certification. Continuing on to earn your Master of Accounting (also known as Master of Accountancy) from an online college for accounting will help you meet the 150 semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam in most states. The CPA license gives you additional experience and credentials, boosting your résumé and qualifying you for elite positions in finance and business. View requirements for CPA licensure by state." + } + ] + }, + "enhanced": { + "name": "Bachelor of Science in Accounting", + "description": "Every business relies on accountants to help them meet regulations, achieve financial security, and make money. This accounting degree ensures you will stand out from the competition with your knowledge of GAAP, ledgers, journal entries, and more. A knack for numbers and a passion for financial performance can help you get into a career where you're sure to thrive and make a difference. This online accounting degree empowers you to help organizations meet standards and obey laws, benefiting individuals, companies, and entire communities.\n\nWGU's Bachelor of Science in Accounting is also the first step toward your CPA certification. Continuing on to earn your Master of Accounting (also known as Master of Accountancy) from an online college for accounting will help you meet the 150 semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam in most states. The CPA license gives you additional experience and credentials, boosting your résumé and qualifying you for elite positions in finance and business.\n\nThe WGU B.S. 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This accounting degree ensures you will stand out from the competition with your knowledge of GAAP, ledgers, journal entries, and more. A knack for numbers and a passion for financial performance can help you get into a career where you're sure to thrive and make a difference. This online accounting degree empowers you to help organizations meet standards and obey laws, benefiting individuals, companies, and entire communities. + +WGU’s Bachelor of Science in Accounting is also the [first step toward your CPA certification](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-masters-program/cpa-certification.html). Continuing on to earn your [Master of Accounting](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-masters-program.html) (also known as Master of Accountancy) from an online college for accounting will help you meet the 150 semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam in most states. The CPA license gives you additional experience and credentials, boosting your résumé and qualifying you for elite positions in finance and business. [View requirements for CPA licensure by state.](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/state-licensure.html) + +**Compare this degree:** Also considering the B.S. Finance degree program? [This article can help you understand the differences](https://www.wgu.edu/resources/degree-comparisons/bs-finance-vs-accounting.html). + +62% of graduates finish within  + +24 Months\* + +WGU lets you move more quickly through material you already know and advance as soon as you're ready. The result: You may finish faster. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Flexible Schedule](#schedule) + +Tuition per six-month term is + +$3,830 + +Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their business management degree. Finish faster, pay less! + +[Cost & Time](#cost) + +Average salary increase + +$6,469\* + +B.S. accounting graduates report an average salary increase of $6,469 after completing their degree at Western Governors University. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Career Outlook](#career) + +Ready to Start Your WGU Journey? + +**Next Start Date: {{startdate}}** + +Start Dates the 1st of Every Month + +[Apply Today](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +COURSES + +Accounting Courses +------------------ + +Program consists of 40 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-bachelors-program/program-guide.html) + +The WGU B.S. Accounting degree program is an affordable, online way to prepare for a rewarding career in accounting, auditing, or bookkeeping, or as a [CPA](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-masters-program/cpa-certification.html). Once you earn your accounting degree, you'll be ready to complete your accounting certification. Learn to evaluate and manage business performance and develop the financial skills needed to keep companies running smoothly. You will learn auditing, financial recording, taxes, payroll, financial planning, and other essential accounting principles while preparing for the CPA or other licensing exams. + +To ensure WGU graduates acquire the knowledge and skills sought by today’s employers, our online bachelor of science in accounting degree was developed with significant input from experts and business leaders who serve on the Western Governors University [Business Program Council](https://www.wgu.edu/about/governance/business-college.html). + +[WHAT ABOUT TRANSFER CREDITS?](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers.html) + +Program consists of: 40 courses + +An unofficial estimated 14 courses are fulfilled by your associate degree leaving 27 courses. + +I Have an Associate Degree + +[Estimate My Transfer Credits](https://www.wgu.edu/transfer-estimator.html) + +Courses Fulfilled By Your Associate Degree + +This is an unofficial estimate of your transfer credits. You may receive more or less credits depending upon the specific courses taken to complete your degree and other credits you may have. + +Below are the anticipated courses that will be fulfilled based on your indication that you have earned an associate’s degree. During the enrollment process this information will be verified. + +General Education + +Integrated Physical Sciences + +This course provides students with an overview of the basic principles and unifying ideas of the physical sciences: physics, chemistry, and earth sciences. Course materials focus on scientific reasoning and practical, everyday applications of physical science concepts to help students integrate conceptual knowledge with practical skills. + +Composition: Successful Self-Expression + +Welcome to Composition: Successful Self-Expression! In this course, you will focus on four main topics: professional writing for a cross-cultural audience, narrowing research topics and questions, researching for content to support a topic, and referencing research sources. Each section includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to check your learning, practice, and show how well you understand course content. Because the course is self-paced, you may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as you need to gain proficiency in the seven competencies that will be covered in the final assessment. If you have no prior knowledge or experience, you can expect to spend 30-40 hours on the course content. You will demonstrate competency through a performance assessment. There is no prerequisite for this course and there is no specific technical knowledge needed. + +Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence + +In this course you will learn key critical thinking concepts and how to apply them in the analysis and evaluation of reasons and evidence. The course examines the basic components of an argument, the credibility of evidence sources, the impact of bias, and how to construct an argument that provides good support for a claim. The course consists of an introduction and four major sections. Each section includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to check your learning, practice, and show how well you understand course content. Because the course is self-paced, you may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as you need to gain proficiency in the four competencies that will be covered in the final assessment. If you have no prior knowledge or experience, you can expect to spend 30-40 hours on the course content. + +Applied Probability and Statistics + +Applied Probability and Statistics is designed to help students develop competence in the fundamental concepts of basic statistics including: introductory algebra and graphing; descriptive statistics; regression and correlation; and probability. Statistical data and probability are often used in everyday life, science, business, information technology, and educational settings to make informed decisions about the validity of studies and the effect of data on decisions. This course discusses what constitutes sound research design and how to appropriately model phenomena using statistical data. Additionally, the content covers simple probability calculations, based on events that occur in the business and IT industries. No prerequisites are required for this course. + +Applied Algebra + +Applied Algebra is designed to help you develop competence in working with functions, the algebra of functions, and using some applied properties of functions. You will start learning about how we can apply different kinds of functions to relevant, real-life examples. From there, the algebra of several families of functions will be explored, including linear, polynomial, exponential, and logistic functions. You will also learn about relevant, applicable mathematical properties of each family of functions, including rate of change, concavity, maximizing/minimizing, and asymptotes. These properties will be used to solve problems related to your major and make sense of everyday living problems. Students should complete Applied Probability and Statistics or its equivalent prior to engaging in Applied Algebra. + +Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others + +Welcome to Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others! It may seem like common knowledge that communication skills are important, and that communicating with others is inescapable in our everyday lives. While this may appear simplistic, the study of communication is actually complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. Strong communication skills are invaluable to strengthening a multitude of aspects of life. Specifically, this course will focus on communication in the professional setting, and present material from multiple vantage points, including communicating with others in a variety of contexts, across situations, and with diverse populations. Upon completion, you will have a deeper understanding of both your own and others’ communication behaviors, and a toolbox of effective behaviors to enhance your experience in the workplace. + +Health, Fitness, and Wellness + +Health, Fitness, and Wellness focuses on the importance and foundations of good health and physical fitness, particularly for children and adolescents. This course addresses health, nutrition, and fitness, and substance use and abuse. + +US History: Stories of American Democracy + +​This course presents a broad survey of U.S. history from early colonization to the mid-twentieth century. The course explores how historical events and major themes in American history have affected diverse populations, influenced changes in policy an established the American definition of democracy.  This course consists of an introduction and five major sections. Each section includes learning opportunities through reading, images, videos, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to practice and check how well you understand the content. Because the course is self-paced, you may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as you need to, with the goal of demonstrating proficiency in the five competencies covered in the final assessment. If you have no prior knowledge of this material, you can expect to spend 30-40 hours on the course content.​  + +Global Arts and Humanities + +This is a Global Arts and Humanities course that contains three modules with corresponding lessons. This course is an invitation to see the world through the humanities, examine the humanities during the Information Age, and explore the global origins of music—essentially questioning what makes us human, and how people are connected across culture and time. Each module includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to practice and check learning. With no prior knowledge or experience, a learner can expect to spend 30-40 hours on the course content. + +Introduction to Sociology + +This course teaches students to think like sociologists, or, in other words, to see and understand the hidden rules, or norms, by which people live, and how they free or restrain behavior. Students will learn about socializing institutions, such as schools and families, as well as workplace organizations and governments. Participants will also learn how people deviate from the rules by challenging norms and how such behavior may result in social change, either on a large scale or within small groups. + +Accounting + +Intermediate Accounting II + +Intermediate Accounting II is the second of three in-depth financial accounting courses for accounting majors. The course focuses on acquisition and disposition of noncurrent assets; depreciation, impairments, and depletion; intangible assets; current liabilities and contingencies; long-term obligations; stockholders' equity; dilutive securities; and time value of money concepts. The prerequisite to this course is Intermediate Accounting I. + +Auditing + +Auditing covers the entire auditing process. This course will help students gain an understanding of the different assurance services, the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, and the conceptual framework for members in public practice. The course will teach students how to assess for audit risk, develop an audit strategy, and gain an understanding of the audit client. Audit evidence and a client’s system of internal control will be discussed in depth. The course requires students to assess risk response by identifying and evaluating tests of controls and substantive procedures. In addition, the course will have students evaluate risk response using data analytics and audit sampling for substantive tests. The course concludes with the completion of the audit through subsequent events, engagement wrap-up and management representation, and reporting on the audit with an unqualified audit report or a modification of the audit report. The prerequisites to this course are Intermediate Accounting I, II, and III, Accounting Information Systems, and Business Law for Accountants. + +Intermediate Accounting III + +Intermediate Accounting III provides comprehensive coverage of investments, revenue recognition, accounting for income taxes, pension plans, and leases. This course completes the intermediate accounting journey. The course explores further advanced topics, including accounting changes and error analysis, full disclosure requirements in financial reporting, and interpretation of the statement of cash flows. Intermediate Accounting I and II are the prerequisites for this course. + +Taxation I + +This course focuses on the taxation of individuals. It provides an overview of income taxes of both individuals and business entities in order to enhance awareness of the complexities and sources of tax law and to measure and analyze the effect of various tax options. The course will introduce taxation of sole proprietorships. Students will learn principles of individual taxation and how to develop effective personal tax strategies for individuals. Students will also be introduced to tax research of complex taxation issues. + +Business Law for Accountants + +Business Law for Accountants is designed to provide the advanced accounting student an understanding of the legal environment and issues encountered in the profession. Topics include the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), contracts, securities regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, legal entities, ethics, agency, and bankruptcy. The prerequisite to this course is Financial Accounting. + +Financial Accounting + +Financial Accounting focuses on ways in which accounting principles are used in business operations. Students learn the basics of financial accounting, including how the accounting cycle is used to record business transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Students will also be introduced to the concepts of assets, liabilities, and equity. This course also presents bank reconciliation methods, balance sheets, and business ethics. Principles of Accounting is a prerequisite for this course. + +Cost and Managerial Accounting + +Cost and Managerial Accounting focuses on the concepts and procedures needed to identify, collect, and interpret accounting data for management control and decision-making. Topics covered include budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, job costing, process costing, activity-based costing, standard costing, and differential analysis. Prerequisites include Principles of Accounting and Financial Accounting. + +Intermediate Accounting I + +Intermediate Accounting I is the first of three in-depth financial accounting courses for accounting majors. The course builds upon topics covered in Principles of Accounting and Financial Accounting. The course focuses on financial accounting and accounting standards; the conceptual framework of the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); the income statement, the statement of cash flows, and the balance sheet; cash and receivables; and inventory valuation. The prerequisite to this course is Financial Accounting. + +Accounting Information Systems + +Accounting Information Systems (AIS for short) introduces students to AIS, with particular emphasis on the accountant’s role in management and financial reporting systems. Topics include transaction cycles and related information technology (IT) controls, data management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and e-commerce systems, systems development and acquisition, documentation, and IT auditing. D103 Intermediate Accounting I and D104 Intermediate Accounting II are the prerequisites to this course. + +Business Core + +Managing in a Global Business Environment + +Managing in a Global Business Environment provides students with a generalist overview of business from a global perspective, while also developing basic skills and knowledge to help them make strategic decisions, communicate, and develop personal relationships in a global environment. Business today is by its very nature a global environment, and individuals working in business will experience the global nature of business as they progress through their careers. This course builds on previously acquired competencies by providing an overview of U.S. federal laws in relation to doing business in a global environment. + +Fundamentals for Success in Business + +This introductory course provides students with an overview of the field of business and a basic understanding of how management, organizational structure, communication, and leadership styles affect the business environment. It also introduces them to some of the power skills that help make successful business professionals, including time management, problem solving, emotional intelligence and innovation; while also teaching them the importance of ethics. This course gives students an opportunity to begin to explore their own strengths and passions in relation to the field while also acclimating them to the online competency-based environment. + +Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting + +Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting provides students with an introduction to the discipline of accounting and its context within the business environment. In this course, students will learn to differentiate between financial, cost, and managerial accounting and where these accounting types fit into the business environment. This course will help students gain a fundamental knowledge of the budgeting process, how to analyze basic financial statements, and how to use spreadsheets to analyze data. This course provides students with a business generalist overview of the field of accounting and acts as a preview course for the accounting major. + +Business Simulation + +This course ties together all the skills and knowledge covered in the business courses and allows the student to prove their mastery of the competencies by applying them in a simulated business environment. This course will help take the student's knowledge and skills from the theoretical to applicable. + +Emotional and Cultural Intelligence + +Success in today’s workplace requires more than technical skill. It depends on emotional awareness, cultural understanding, and ethical decision-making. This course will help you strengthen your ability to communicate effectively, connect across differences, and lead with empathy. These are not soft skills. They are the professional capabilities employers value most and the human qualities that technology can never replace. + +Fundamentals of Spreadsheets and Data Presentations + +Fundamentals of Spreadsheets and Data Presentations offers learners an overview of the use of spreadsheet functions and methods for presenting data within spreadsheets. Learners will have the opportunity to explore features and uses of MS Excel and apply the tools to situations they may encounter while studying in their program. They will also be introduced to real world uses and tools to collect, organize and present data. + +Innovative and Strategic Thinking + +This course covers an important part of being a business professional: the knowledge and skills used in building and implementing business strategy. The course helps students build on previously acquired competencies in the areas of management, innovative thinking, and risk management while introducing them to the concepts and theories underpinning business strategy as a general business perspective. The course will help students gain skills in analyzing different business environments and in using quantitative literacy and data analysis in business strategy development and implementation. This course helps to provide students with a generalist overview of the area of business strategy. + +Principles of Economics + +Principles of Economics introduces students to foundational economic theories on markets and market behavior. This information is valuable to students pursuing careers involving decision making and is applicable to any industry. This course has three competencies: The Economic Way of Thinking, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics. In the first, economics is defined, and fundamental economic principles are introduced. Microeconomics develops the supply and demand model and demonstrates how it is used to understand business interactions and to make public policy decisions. The competency includes supply, demand, elasticity, efficiency, market failure, costs, production, and market structure. Macroeconomics focuses on the measurement and performance of the nation economy. The competency includes macroeconomic variables, aggregate supply, aggregate demand, money, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and international trade. + +Principles of Management + +Principles of Management provides students with an introductory look at the discipline of management and its context within the business environment. Students of this course build on previously mastered competencies by taking a more in-depth look at management as a discipline and how it differs from leadership while further exploring the importance of communication within business. This course provides students with a business generalist overview in the areas of strategic planning, total quality, entrepreneurship, conflict and change, human resource management, diversity, and organizational structure. + +Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment + +Business Environment Applications 1 provides students with a generalist overview of the business environment and a deeper look at a number of topics that make up the non-discipline areas of business which are required for a business person to be successful within any business environment. The first part of the course focuses on knowledge about organizations and how people operate within organizations, including the areas of organizational theory, structure, and effectiveness. The course then looks at business from a legal perspective with an overview of the legal environment of business. The course will prepare the student to consider specific legal situations and to make legal and ethical decisions related to those situations. + +Finance Skills for Managers + +This course provides students with an introductory look at the discipline of finance and its context within the business environment. Students gain the knowledge to differentiate between personal and business finance and how they may overlap in a business environment. Students also gain a fundamental knowledge of financial forecasting and budgeting, statement analysis, and decision making. This course provides the student a business generalist overview of the field of finance and builds on previous acquired competencies related to using spreadsheets. + +Business Environment Applications II: Process, Logistics, and Operations + +Business Environment II: Logistics, Process, and Operations provides students with a generalist overview of the business environment as they explore themes of ethics, problem-solving, and innovative thinking. This course adds to the students’ business skills and knowledge in a number of professional areas. The first part of the course uncovers a series of business processes like project and risk management. The second part gives an introductory-level look at the specialized areas of operations management, supply chains, and logistics. The course finishes with models of change management and how to use them to overcome barriers in organizations. + +Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact + +Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact introduces students to the discipline of marketing and its role within the strategic and operational environments of a business. This course covers fundamental knowledge in the area of marketing planning, including the marketing mix, while also describing basic concepts of brand management, digital marketing, customer relationship management, and personal selling and negotiating. All of this helps students identify the role of marketing within an organization. This course provides students with a business generalist overview of the field of marketing and an exploration of the marketing major. + +Business Management + +Organizational Behavior + +Organizational Behavior and Leadership explores how to lead and manage effectively in diverse business environments. Students are asked to demonstrate the ability to apply organizational leadership theories and management strategies in a series of scenario-based problems. + +Business Ethics + +Business Ethics is designed to enable students to identify the ethical and socially responsible courses of action available through the exploration of various scenarios in business. Students will also learn to develop appropriate ethics guidelines for a business. This course has no prerequisites. + +Change Management + +Change Management provides an understanding of change and an overview of successfully managing change using various methods and tools. Emphasizing change theories and various best practices, this course covers how to recognize and implement change using an array of other effective strategies, including those related to innovation and leadership. Other topics include approaches to change, diagnosing and planning for change, implementing change, and sustaining change. + +Operations and Supply Chain Management + +Operations and Supply Chain Management provides a streamlined introduction to how organizations efficiently produce goods and services, determine supply chain management strategies, and measure performance. Emphasis is placed on integrative topics essential for managers in all disciplines, such as supply chain management, product development, and capacity planning. This course guides students in analyzing processes, managing quality for both services and products, and measuring performance while creating value along the supply chain in a global environment. Topics include forecasting, product and service design, process design and location analysis, capacity planning, management of quality and quality control, inventory management, scheduling, supply chain management, and performance measurement. + +Values-Based Leadership + +Values-Based Leadership guides students to learn by reflection, design, and scenario planning. Through a combination of theory, reflection, value alignment, and practice, the course helps students examine and understand values-based leadership and explore foundations in creating a culture of care. In this course, students are given the opportunity to identify and define their personal values through an assessment and reflection process. Students then evaluate business cases to practice mapping the influence of values on their own leadership. In this course, students also participate in scenario planning, where they can practice implementing their values in their daily routine (i.e., behaviors) and then in a leadership setting. The course illustrates how values-driven leadership is used in goal setting as well as problem-solving at an organizational level. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Business Communication + +Business Communication is a survey course of communication skills needed in the business environment. Course content includes writing messages, reports, and résumés and delivering oral presentations. The course emphasizes communication processes, writing skills, message types, and presentation of data. The development of these skills is integrated with the use of technology. + +Quantitative Analysis For Business + +Quantitative Analysis for Business explores various decision-making models, including expected value models, linear programming models, and inventory models. This course helps student learn to analyze data by using a variety of analytic tools and techniques to make better business decisions. In addition, it covers developing project schedules using the Critical Path Method. Other topics include calculating and evaluating formulas, measures of uncertainty, crash costs, and visual representation of decision-making models using electronic spreadsheets and graphs. This course has no prerequisites. + +Project Management + +Project Management prepares you to manage projects from start to finish within any organization structure. The course represents a view into different project-management methods and delves into topics such as project profiling and phases, constraints, building the project team, scheduling, and risk. You will be able to grasp the full scope of projects you may work with on in the future, and apply proper management approaches to complete a project. The course features practice in each of the project phases as you learn how to strategically apply project-management tools and techniques to help organizations achieve their goals. + +40 Courses + +Program consists of 40 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-bachelors-program/program-guide.html) + +Accounting Success + +Join Our Growing Alumni + +The WGU undergraduate accounting program was founded in 2002 and has over 7,400 graduates.   + +[Request Info](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +WGU vs. Traditional Universities +Compare the Difference +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Traditional Universities + +Western Governors University + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 4 years, minimal acceleration options + +As quickly as you can master the material, typically less than 3 years + +TRANSFER CREDITS + +Few accepted, based on certain schools and specific courses + +A generous transfer policy that is based on your specific situation + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Traditional Universities + +Western Governors University + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +SUPPORT + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +EXAMS + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +SCHEDULE + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 4 years, minimal acceleration options + +TIME TO FINISH + +As quickly as you can master the material, typically less than 3 years + +TRANSFER CREDITS + +Few accepted, based on certain schools and specific courses + +TRANSFER CREDITS + +A generous transfer policy that is based on your specific situation + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Why WGU? + +Earning Potential + +A degree can dramatically impact your earning potential. After graduation WGU accounting students report earning $10,372\* more per year. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[PAYING FOR SCHOOL](#cost) + +Entirely Online + +Competency-based education means you can move as quickly through your degree as you can master the material. You don't have to log in to classes at a certain time—you are truly in the driver's seat of your education.  + +[ADMISSIONS INFO](#admissions) + +Ready For Your Next Step + +Graduates of this program are ready to progress toward a MAcc program, [CPA examination](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-masters-program/cpa-certification.html), or a specific job. WGU's accounting bachelor's program is a crucial step in eligibility to sit for the accounting certification exam, and prepares you for success in the field. + +[A FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE](#schedule) + +Accredited, Respected, Recognized™ + +One important measure of a degree’s value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. WGU is a pioneer in reinventing higher education for the 21st century, and the quality of this program has been recognized by ACBSP.  + +COST & TIME + +How Much Does it Cost to Get an Accounting Degree Online? +--------------------------------------------------------- + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +Need help paying for college? Be sure to check with the AICPA and your state CPA society for scholarship opportunities! Both are a great resource for students and can provide a pathway to industry professionals. In addition to scholarship opportunities, many state societies also offer free student memberships and networking events. + +[Apply FREE](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Tuition Calculator + +Pay less by completing your program faster + +TOTAL COST: + +$ + +0 + +. + +5 + +1 + +1 + +. + +5 + +2 + +2 + +. + +5 + +3 + +3 + +. + +5 + +4 + +YEARS + +Cost Breakdown + +Tuition + +$3,830 + +E-Books and Resources Fee + ++ $200 + +* * * + +TOTAL (per 6-month term) + +\= $ + +6-month terms + +X + +* * * + +Total Cost + +\= $ + +### An Accounting Degree Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half\* the national average. + +[Responsible Borrowing Initiative](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid/responsible-borrowing-initiative.html) + +Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits.  + +[Financial Aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html) + +Many scholarship opportunities are available. Find out what you might be eligible for. You can also learn more about the [CMA scholarship nomination process here](https://www.wgu.edu/lp/business/lead/cma-scholarship.html). + +[Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) + +#### \*_WGU undergraduate students have approximately half the debt at graduation compared to the national average, according to the Institute for College Access and Success (2022)._ + +FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE + +A Different Way to Learn: Degree Programs Designed to Fit Your Life—and All the Demands on Your Time +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Professional responsibilities. Family obligations. Personal commitments. At WGU, we understand schedules are tight and often unpredictable for adult students. That’s why we offer a **flexible, personalized** approach to how education should be. No rigid class schedules. Just a solid, career-focused teaching program that meshes with your current lifestyle. You'll be challenged. You'll work hard. But if you commit yourself and put in the hours needed, WGU makes it possible for you to earn a **highly respected degree** as a busy working adult. + +[REQUEST MORE INFO](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +_“Now that I'm doing full-cycle accounting, I understand the scope. I understand where you start and where you're supposed to wind up. It just makes a lot more sense. Earning my degree has really helped me fill in the blanks and take my job satisfaction to a higher level because I actually understand why I'm doing what I'm doing now.”_ + +**—Kate Leger +B.S. Accounting** + + + +CAREER OUTLOOK + +Your Accounting Degree Can Be One of Your Greatest Assets +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Taxes. Audits. Payroll. Financial planning. Businesses need professionals who can help manage their finances and help everything run smoothly with budgets and taxes. This online degree from WGU prepares you for a lucrative and successful career as an accountant in whatever field or specialty you're passionate about. You can also be prepared to sit for the accounting certification exam and become a certified public accountant.  + +As long as there is money, there will be a need for qualified accountants. When you have completed your B.S. Accounting degree, your skills will be in high demand because every business, no matter the size or industry, has to balance its books and comply with government regulations. + +[MORE ABOUT CAREERS](https://www.wgu.edu/career-guide/business.html) + +### Return on Your Investment + +### Many WGU graduates may see an increase in income post-graduation + +[](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) + +_Average income increase in annual salary vs. pre-enrollment salary from all degrees. Source: [2024 Harris Poll](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) of 1,655 WGU graduates._ + +_Survey was sent to a representative sample of WGU graduates from all colleges. Respondents received at least one WGU degree since 2017._ + +6% + +_Employment of accountants and auditors is projected to [grow 6% through 2033](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/accountants-and-auditors.htm). The median salary for an accountant and auditor is almost $80,000 per year._ + +**—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics** + +### WGU Accounting Grads Are Thriving in Rewarding Careers + +Our 2,600-plus B.S. Accounting alumni have great jobs and satisfying careers: + +#### Job Titles + +* Accounting manager +* Financial director +* Vice president of finance and operations +* Controller +* Chief financial officer +* Forensic accountant + +#### Diverse Industries + +* Business and corporations +* Tax preparation +* U.S. military +* Government +* Colleges and universities + +#### Major Employers + +* State of Nevada +* U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs +* Jackson Hewitt Tax Services +* Wyndham +* Northrop Grumman + +### WGU Grads Hold Positions With Top Employers + +[Explore More](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/education-outcomes/new-career.html) + +ADMISSIONS & TRANSFERS + +Admission Requirements - Accounting +----------------------------------- + +Applicants to undergraduate School of Business programs must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent AND demonstrate program readiness through one of the following options below: + +* **Option 1**: Submit all transcripts documenting completion of college-level coursework with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. +* **Option 2:** Possess a bachelors or associate degree (A.A or A.S. acceptable) from an accredited post-secondary institution. +* **Option 3:** Submit high school transcripts for review with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. + +NOTE: You do not need to take the ACT or SAT to be admitted to this program. [Learn why we don't require these tests](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/no-standardized-testing.html). + +[GENERAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/business-requirements.html) + +Get Your Enrollment Checklist + +Download your step-by-step guide to enrollment. + +[VIEW CHECKLIST](https://www.wgu.edu/content/dam/western-governors/documents/admissions/checklist_general.pdf) + +Get Your Questions Answered + +Talk to an WGU Enrollment Counselor. + +[CONTACT AN ENROLLMENT COUNSELOR](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +Transfer Credits + +------------------- + +If you’ve taken courses, have earned certifications, or received a degree from a community college or another university, you're likely already well on your way to a WGU degree. **You can almost always transfer credits when you send accredited bachelor's or asociate degree transcripts.** + +WGU’s curriculum structure is competency-based, allowing you to apply your existing knowledge and skills to your education. **Students with an Associate of Arts (A.A.) or Associate of Science (A.S.) degree usually qualify for upper-division standing at WGU.** + +Depending on your degree program, you may qualify for additional requirement waivers. **If you have completed some college coursework but have not earned a degree, WGU will conduct  a transcript evaluation.** Your experience may waive some of your requirements. + +[TRANSFER INFORMATION](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers/transfer-to-wgu.html) + +MORE DETAILS + +### WGU Certificates in Accounting + +* * * + +Each of WGU’s Bachelor’s in Business degree programs begin with the same 4 terms of core classes, covering business basics and including valuable certificates. For the accounting degree, you'll earn the accounting, strategic thinking and innovation, and leadership certificates. After finishing these core courses, you move forward to courses in your chosen major of Accounting, Business Management, Healthcare Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, or IT Management. + +[MORE ABOUT COURSES](#courses) + +[Accounting + +Accounting](https://wgu.badgr.com/public/badges/64DTsbWdS2-cFAIS6nh73g) + +[Strategic Thinking & Innovation + +Strategic Thinking & Innovation](https://wgu.badgr.com/public/badges/CrOiHO8uRlWrl-oE_oap4Q) + +[Leadership + +Leadership](https://wgu.badgr.com/public/badges/4hgxvjZLRumWmE_W3sfVOQ) + +FAQs about Accounting Programs + +1. General Accounting Program Questions + +2. Online Accounting Program Questions + + +### What can I do with a degree in accounting? + +A degree in accounting qualifies you to work in a number of positions related to accounting and finance. The positions you qualify for depend on your level of education. With a bachelor’s degree, you may be most qualified for entry-level positions as a bookkeeper, accounts payable specialist, or assistant payroll administrator. With a master’s degree in accounting and as a certified public accountant, you may find you’re more qualified for leadership positions and senior-level roles. These include accounting manager, auditor, investment banker, and chief financial officer. + +### How long does it take to complete an online accounting degree? + +In general, it takes about four years or 120 credits to complete an online accounting degree. However, with a competency-based education model, like what is offered at WGU, students can graduate more quickly by passing assessments using their existing skills and knowledge. + +### Can you get a bachelor's degree in accounting online? + +Yes! There are many online programs that offer accredited bachelor's degree programs for students to pursue. These online bachelor's degree programs can be a great option for students who are working full-time so they can continue to pursue their online education while still earning money. + +### What can I do with a bachelor's in accounting? + +With a bachelor’s degree in accounting, you may be able to secure a job in a number of different accounting-related areas. While Certified Public Accountants often work more in management and senior-level positions, with a bachelor’s degree in accounting you may be qualified for some of the following entry-level positions: + +* Payroll specialist +* Tax accountant +* Auditor +* Bookkeeper +* Financial analyst + +### How much does it cost to get an accounting degree online? + +The cost of your online accounting degree will vary based on the school you choose—different schools will have different tuition and fee amounts. WGU is one of the most affordable options for an online accounting degree, with tuition costing just $3,830 per six-month term. Tuition is charged per term, not per credit, so you can take as many courses as you're able during your six-month term. That means graduating faster will cost less!  + +### Can you earn an accounting degree online? + +Yes! There are many online degree programs that offer accounting degrees online. Do your research to learn which kind of online university is the best fit for you. For example, WGU offers entirely online degrees and no set class times—you do your coursework on your schedule. This helps you take control of your education and earn an online accounting degree on your timeline.  + +### What's the best online college for accounting? + +There are many online colleges that offer accounting degree programs, so it's important to do your research to find the best fit for you. Look at tuition costs, accreditation, educational models, and coursework to figure out which program is best. WGU is highly reputable, accredited, and affordable. Our online accounting degree program has helped thousands of students pursue an accounting career and find success. + +### Is an online accounting degree worth anything? + +An online accounting degree is extremely valuable if you want to become an accountant. For most accounting positions you will need at least a bachelor's degree. This will help you learn about fundamental accounting principles, rules, regulations, financial statements, and more. And if you want to become a CPA you'll absolutely need at least a bachelor's degree, if not a master's degree. + +### Does an online accounting degree meet certification requirements? + +In order to sit for the CPA exam you'll need to have an accredited bachelor's degree, and in many states also a master's degree in accounting. An online bachelor's degree program will be a crucial first step in preparing for CPA certification. 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All rights reserved. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/eval/wgu/bs-accounting/page-annotated.md b/eval/wgu/bs-accounting/page-annotated.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa45513 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/bs-accounting/page-annotated.md @@ -0,0 +1,351 @@ +# WGU — B.S. Accounting + +**Source URL:** https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/accounting-bachelors-program.html +**Captured:** 2026-07-01 +**Raw HTML:** `bs-accounting.html` (447,914 bytes) + +--- + +## CTDL-relevant content on this page + +- **Program name** (`ceterms:name`): "Bachelor of Science in Accounting" / "Online Accounting Degree" +- **Description** (`ceterms:description`): "This accounting degree ensures you will stand out from the competition with your knowledge of GAAP, ledgers, journal entries, and more... This online accounting degree empowers you to help organizations meet standards and obey laws, benefiting individuals, companies, and entire communities." +- **Credential type** (`ceterms:credentialType`): Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — `ceterms:BachelorDegree` +- **Time to complete** (`ceterms:estimatedDuration`): "62% of graduates finish within 24 Months"; traditional "approximately 4 years"; "typically less than 3 years" +- **Cost** (`ceterms:estimatedCost`): "$3,830" tuition per six-month term + "$200" e-books/resources fee = $4,030 per term; example totals: "$16,120" (2 yr) to "$32,240" (4 yr) +- **Credit units** (`ceterms:creditValue`): not stated on page (competency-based); "120 credits" mentioned in FAQ +- **Course count**: "Program consists of 40 courses" +- **Admission requirements** (`ceterms:requires` / `ceterms:entryCondition`): "possess a high school diploma or its equivalent AND demonstrate program readiness through one of: Option 1: college-level coursework with cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher; Option 2: bachelors or associate degree; Option 3: high school transcripts with cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher." "You do not need to take the ACT or SAT." +- **Delivery mode** (`ceterms:deliveryType`): "Entirely Online"; "Courses available anytime, from anywhere" +- **Learning outcomes / competencies** (`ceterms:teaches`): "GAAP, ledgers, journal entries"; "auditing, financial recording, taxes, payroll, financial planning, and other essential accounting principles" +- **Courses** (`ceterms:hasPart`): Intermediate Accounting I, II, III; Auditing; Taxation I; Business Law for Accountants; Financial Accounting; Cost and Managerial Accounting; Accounting Information Systems; Integrated Physical Sciences; Composition: Successful Self-Expression; Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence; Applied Probability and Statistics; Applied Algebra; Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others; Health, Fitness, and Wellness; US History: Stories of American Democracy; Global Arts and Humanities; Introduction to Sociology; Managing in a Global Business Environment; Fundamentals for Success in Business; Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting; Business Simulation; Emotional and Cultural Intelligence; Fundamentals of Spreadsheets and Data Presentations; Innovative and Strategic Thinking; Principles of Economics; Principles of Management; Business Environment Applications I; Finance Skills for Managers; Business Environment Applications II; Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact; Organizational Behavior; Business Ethics; Change Management; Operations and Supply Chain Management; Values-Based Leadership; Business Communication; Quantitative Analysis for Business; Project Management +- **Career outcomes / occupations** (`ceterms:occupationType`): "Accounting manager, Financial director, Vice president of finance and operations, Controller, Chief financial officer, Forensic accountant"; also "Payroll specialist, Tax accountant, Auditor, Bookkeeper, Financial analyst" +- **Industries** (`ceterms:industryType`): "Business and corporations, Tax preparation, U.S. military, Government, Colleges and universities" +- **Accreditation** (`ceterms:accreditedBy`): "ACBSP" +- **Embedded credentials** (`ceterms:hasPart`): WGU Certificates: "Accounting", "Strategic Thinking & Innovation", "Leadership" +- **Prepares for** (`ceterms:isPreparationFor`): "first step toward your CPA certification"; "preparing for the CPA or other licensing exams" +- **Transfer / advanced standing** (`ceterms:advancedStandingFrom`): "an unofficial estimated 14 courses are fulfilled by your associate degree, leaving 27 courses" +- **Outcome data** (`qdata:`): "average salary increase: $6,469"; "Median salary for an accountant and auditor is almost $80,000 per year"; "Employment of accountants and auditors is projected to grow 6% through 2033 — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics" + +--- + +# Online Accounting Degree — Bachelor's Program | WGU + +## Bachelor of Science: Online Accounting Degree + +### OVERVIEW + +#### An Online Accounting Degree That Sets You Apart + +Every business relies on accountants to help them meet regulations, achieve financial security, and make money. This accounting degree ensures you will stand out from the competition with your knowledge of GAAP, ledgers, journal entries, and more. A knack for numbers and a passion for financial performance can help you get into a career where you're sure to thrive and make a difference. This online accounting degree empowers you to help organizations meet standards and obey laws, benefiting individuals, companies, and entire communities. + +WGU's Bachelor of Science in Accounting is also the first step toward your CPA certification. Continuing on to earn your Master of Accounting (also known as Master of Accountancy) from an online college for accounting will help you meet the 150 semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam in most states. The CPA license gives you additional experience and credentials, boosting your résumé and qualifying you for elite positions in finance and business. View requirements for CPA licensure by state. + +**Compare this degree:** Also considering the B.S. Finance degree program? This article can help you understand the differences. + +#### Key Statistics + +- **62% of graduates finish within 24 Months** — WGU lets you move more quickly through material you already know and advance as soon as you're ready. +- **Tuition per six-month term is $3,830** — Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their business management degree. Finish faster, pay less! +- **Average salary increase: $6,469** — B.S. accounting graduates report an average salary increase after completing their degree at Western Governors University. + +--- + +## COURSES + +### Accounting Courses + +**Program consists of 40 courses** + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +The WGU B.S. Accounting degree program is an affordable, online way to prepare for a rewarding career in accounting, auditing, or bookkeeping, or as a CPA. Once you earn your accounting degree, you'll be ready to complete your accounting certification. Learn to evaluate and manage business performance and develop the financial skills needed to keep companies running smoothly. You will learn auditing, financial recording, taxes, payroll, financial planning, and other essential accounting principles while preparing for the CPA or other licensing exams. + +To ensure WGU graduates acquire the knowledge and skills sought by today's employers, our online bachelor of science in accounting degree was developed with significant input from experts and business leaders who serve on the Western Governors University Business Program Council. + +#### Transfer Credits + +If you have an Associate Degree, an unofficial estimated **14 courses are fulfilled** by your associate degree, leaving **27 courses**. + +--- + +### Course Listing by Category + +#### General Education + +- Integrated Physical Sciences +- Composition: Successful Self-Expression +- Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence +- Applied Probability and Statistics +- Applied Algebra +- Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others +- Health, Fitness, and Wellness +- US History: Stories of American Democracy +- Global Arts and Humanities +- Introduction to Sociology + +#### Accounting Core + +- Intermediate Accounting II +- Auditing +- Intermediate Accounting III +- Taxation I +- Business Law for Accountants +- Financial Accounting +- Cost and Managerial Accounting +- Intermediate Accounting I +- Accounting Information Systems + +#### Business Core + +- Managing in a Global Business Environment +- Fundamentals for Success in Business +- Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting +- Business Simulation +- Emotional and Cultural Intelligence +- Fundamentals of Spreadsheets and Data Presentations +- Innovative and Strategic Thinking +- Principles of Economics +- Principles of Management +- Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment +- Finance Skills for Managers +- Business Environment Applications II: Process, Logistics, and Operations +- Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact + +#### Business Management Courses + +- Organizational Behavior +- Business Ethics +- Change Management +- Operations and Supply Chain Management +- Values-Based Leadership +- Business Communication +- Quantitative Analysis for Business +- Project Management + +--- + +## COST & TIME + +### How Much Does it Cost to Get an Accounting Degree Online? + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +Need help paying for college? Be sure to check with the AICPA and your state CPA society for scholarship opportunities! Both are a great resource for students and can provide a pathway to industry professionals. In addition to scholarship opportunities, many state societies also offer free student memberships and networking events. + +#### Cost Breakdown (Per 6-Month Term) + +| Item | Cost | +|------|------| +| Tuition | $3,830 | +| E-Books and Resources Fee | $200 | +| **TOTAL per 6-month term** | **$4,030** | + +**Total Cost Examples:** +- 1 year (2 terms): $8,060 +- 1.5 years (3 terms): $12,090 +- 2 years (4 terms): $16,120 +- 2.5 years (5 terms): $20,150 +- 3 years (6 terms): $24,180 +- 3.5 years (7 terms): $28,210 +- 4 years (8 terms): $32,240 + +#### An Accounting Degree Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +- **The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022** (among those who borrowed) was less than half the national average. + - [Responsible Borrowing Initiative](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid/responsible-borrowing-initiative.html) + +- **Most WGU students qualify for financial aid**, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits. + - [Financial Aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html) + +- **Many scholarship opportunities are available.** Find out what you might be eligible for. You can also learn more about the CMA scholarship nomination process. + - [Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) + +--- + +## FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE + +### A Different Way to Learn: Degree Programs Designed to Fit Your Life + +Professional responsibilities. Family obligations. Personal commitments. At WGU, we understand schedules are tight and often unpredictable for adult students. That's why we offer a flexible, personalized approach to how education should be. No rigid class schedules. Just a solid, career-focused teaching program that meshes with your current lifestyle. You'll be challenged. You'll work hard. But if you commit yourself and put in the hours needed, WGU makes it possible to earn a highly respected degree as a busy working adult. + +#### Student Testimonial + +> "Now that I'm doing full-cycle accounting, I understand the scope. I understand where you start and where you're supposed to wind up. It just makes a lot more sense. Earning my degree has really helped me fill in the blanks and take my job satisfaction to a higher level because I actually understand why I'm doing what I'm doing now." +> +> — **Kate Leger, B.S. Accounting** + +--- + +## CAREER OUTLOOK + +### Your Accounting Degree Can Be One of Your Greatest Assets + +Taxes. Audits. Payroll. Financial planning. Businesses need professionals who can help manage their finances and help everything run smoothly with budgets and taxes. This online degree from WGU prepares you for a lucrative and successful career as an accountant in whatever field or specialty you're passionate about. You can also be prepared to sit for the accounting certification exam and become a certified public accountant. + +As long as there is money, there will be a need for qualified accountants. When you have completed your B.S. Accounting degree, your skills will be in high demand because every business, no matter the size or industry, has to balance its books and comply with government regulations. + +#### Return on Your Investment + +**Many WGU graduates see an increase in income post-graduation:** +- Average income increase of approximately 6% across all WGU degrees (Source: 2024 Harris Poll of 1,655 WGU graduates) + +**Employment Outlook:** +- Employment of accountants and auditors is projected to grow 6% through 2033 +- Median salary for an accountant and auditor is almost $80,000 per year + — *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics* + +#### WGU Accounting Grads Are Thriving in Rewarding Careers + +Our 2,600-plus B.S. Accounting alumni have great jobs and satisfying careers: + +**Job Titles:** +- Accounting manager +- Financial director +- Vice president of finance and operations +- Controller +- Chief financial officer +- Forensic accountant + +**Diverse Industries:** +- Business and corporations +- Tax preparation +- U.S. military +- Government +- Colleges and universities + +**Major Employers:** +- State of Nevada +- U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs +- Jackson Hewitt Tax Services +- Wyndham +- Northrop Grumman + +--- + +## ADMISSIONS & TRANSFERS + +### Admission Requirements - Accounting + +Applicants to undergraduate School of Business programs must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent AND demonstrate program readiness through one of the following options: + +- **Option 1**: Submit all transcripts documenting completion of college-level coursework with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. +- **Option 2:** Possess a bachelors or associate degree (A.A or A.S. acceptable) from an accredited post-secondary institution. +- **Option 3:** Submit high school transcripts for review with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. + +**NOTE:** You do not need to take the ACT or SAT to be admitted to this program. + +### Transfer Credits + +If you've taken courses, have earned certifications, or received a degree from a community college or another university, you're likely already well on your way to a WGU degree. **You can almost always transfer credits when you send accredited bachelor's or associate degree transcripts.** + +WGU's curriculum structure is competency-based, allowing you to apply your existing knowledge and skills to your education. **Students with an Associate of Arts (A.A.) or Associate of Science (A.S.) degree usually qualify for upper-division standing at WGU.** + +Depending on your degree program, you may qualify for additional requirement waivers. **If you have completed some college coursework but have not earned a degree, WGU will conduct a transcript evaluation.** Your experience may waive some of your requirements. + +--- + +## MORE DETAILS + +### WGU Certificates in Accounting + +Each of WGU's Bachelor's in Business degree programs begin with the same 4 terms of core classes, covering business basics and including valuable certificates. For the accounting degree, you'll earn the following certificates: + +- **Accounting** +- **Strategic Thinking & Innovation** +- **Leadership** + +After finishing these core courses, you move forward to courses in your chosen major of Accounting, Business Management, Healthcare Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, or IT Management. + +--- + +## FAQs About Accounting Programs + +### What can I do with a degree in accounting? + +A degree in accounting qualifies you to work in a number of positions related to accounting and finance. The positions you qualify for depend on your level of education. With a bachelor's degree, you may be most qualified for entry-level positions as a bookkeeper, accounts payable specialist, or assistant payroll administrator. With a master's degree in accounting and as a certified public accountant, you may find you're more qualified for leadership positions and senior-level roles. These include accounting manager, auditor, investment banker, and chief financial officer. + +### How long does it take to complete an online accounting degree? + +In general, it takes about four years or 120 credits to complete an online accounting degree. However, with a competency-based education model, like what is offered at WGU, students can graduate more quickly by passing assessments using their existing skills and knowledge. + +### Can you get a bachelor's degree in accounting online? + +Yes! There are many online programs that offer accredited bachelor's degree programs for students to pursue. These online bachelor's degree programs can be a great option for students who are working full-time so they can continue to pursue their online education while still earning money. + +### What can I do with a bachelor's in accounting? + +With a bachelor's degree in accounting, you may be able to secure a job in a number of different accounting-related areas. While Certified Public Accountants often work more in management and senior-level positions, with a bachelor's degree in accounting you may be qualified for some of the following entry-level positions: + +- Payroll specialist +- Tax accountant +- Auditor +- Bookkeeper +- Financial analyst + +### How much does it cost to get an accounting degree online? + +The cost of your online accounting degree will vary based on the school you choose—different schools will have different tuition and fee amounts. WGU is one of the most affordable options for an online accounting degree, with tuition costing just $3,830 per six-month term. Tuition is charged per term, not per credit, so you can take as many courses as you're able during your six-month term. That means graduating faster will cost less! + +### Can you earn an accounting degree online? + +Yes! There are many online degree programs that offer accounting degrees online. Do your research to learn which kind of online university is the best fit for you. For example, WGU offers entirely online degrees and no set class times—you do your coursework on your schedule. This helps you take control of your education and earn an online accounting degree on your timeline. + +### What's the best online college for accounting? + +There are many online colleges that offer accounting degree programs, so it's important to do your research to find the best fit for you. Look at tuition costs, accreditation, educational models, and coursework to figure out which program is best. WGU is highly reputable, accredited, and affordable. Our online accounting degree program has helped thousands of students pursue an accounting career and find success. + +### Is an online accounting degree worth anything? + +An online accounting degree is extremely valuable if you want to become an accountant. For most accounting positions you will need at least a bachelor's degree. This will help you learn about fundamental accounting principles, rules, regulations, financial statements, and more. And if you want to become a CPA you'll absolutely need at least a bachelor's degree, if not a master's degree. + +### Does an online accounting degree meet certification requirements? + +In order to sit for the CPA exam you'll need to have an accredited bachelor's degree, and in many states also a master's degree in accounting. An online bachelor's degree program will be a crucial first step in preparing for CPA certification. When researching an online accounting degree, you'll need to ensure that your online degree is from an accredited institution. + +### Is an online accounting degree right for me? + +An online accounting degree can be a fantastic choice if you are currently working full-time and want to maintain your job while furthering your education. An online accounting degree also allows you to get valuable credentials that boost your résumé, preparing you to move forward in your career. An online accounting degree can be a great option for many working professionals and students who are looking for an accessible degree option. + +--- + +## WGU vs. Traditional Universities: Compare the Difference + +| Factor | Traditional Universities | Western Governors University | +|--------|-------------------------|------------------------------| +| **Tuition Structure** | Per credit hour | Flat rate per 6-month term | +| **Support** | Schedule and wait days or weeks to meet with one of many counselors | Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one | +| **Exams** | Scheduled time | Whenever you feel ready | +| **Schedule** | Professor-led lectures at a certain time and place | Courses available anytime, from anywhere | +| **Time to Finish** | Approximately 4 years, minimal acceleration options | As quickly as you can master the material, typically less than 3 years | +| **Transfer Credits** | Few accepted, based on certain schools and specific courses | A generous transfer policy that is based on your specific situation | + +--- + +## Why WGU? + +### Earning Potential + +A degree can dramatically impact your earning potential. After graduation WGU accounting students report earning $10,372 more per year. + +### Entirely Online + +Competency-based education means you can move as quickly through your degree as you can master the material. You don't have to log in to classes at a certain time—you are truly in the driver's seat of your education. + +### Ready For Your Next Step + +Graduates of this program are ready to progress toward a MAcc program, CPA examination, or a specific job. WGU's accounting bachelor's program is a crucial step in eligibility to sit for the accounting certification exam, and prepares you for success in the field. + +### Accredited, Respected, Recognized + +One important measure of a degree's value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. 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A degree can dramatically impact your earning potential. After graduation WGU accounting students report earning $10,372* more per year.

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Graduates of this program are ready to progress toward a MAcc program, CPA examination, or a specific job. WGU's accounting bachelor's program is a crucial step in eligibility to sit for the accounting certification exam, and prepares you for success in the field.
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How Much Does it Cost to Get an Accounting Degree Online?

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By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree.

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Need help paying for college? Be sure to check with the AICPA and your state CPA society for scholarship opportunities! Both are a great resource for students and can provide a pathway to industry professionals. In addition to scholarship opportunities, many state societies also offer free student memberships and networking events.

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Professional responsibilities. Family obligations. Personal commitments. At WGU, we understand schedules are tight and often unpredictable for adult students. That’s why we offer a flexible, personalized approach to how education should be. No rigid class schedules. Just a solid, career-focused teaching program that meshes with your current lifestyle. You'll be challenged. You'll work hard. But if you commit yourself and put in the hours needed, WGU makes it possible for you to earn a highly respected degree as a busy working adult.

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“Now that I'm doing full-cycle accounting, I understand the scope. I understand where you start and where you're supposed to wind up. It just makes a lot more sense. Earning my degree has really helped me fill in the blanks and take my job satisfaction to a higher level because I actually understand why I'm doing what I'm doing now.”

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Your Accounting Degree Can Be One of Your Greatest Assets

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Taxes. Audits. Payroll. Financial planning. Businesses need professionals who can help manage their finances and help everything run smoothly with budgets and taxes. This online degree from WGU prepares you for a lucrative and successful career as an accountant in whatever field or specialty you're passionate about. You can also be prepared to sit for the accounting certification exam and become a certified public accountant. 

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As long as there is money, there will be a need for qualified accountants. When you have completed your B.S. Accounting degree, your skills will be in high demand because every business, no matter the size or industry, has to balance its books and comply with government regulations.

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Our 2,600-plus B.S. Accounting alumni have great jobs and satisfying careers:

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Applicants to undergraduate School of Business programs must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent AND demonstrate program readiness through one of the following options below:
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Each of WGU’s Bachelor’s in Business degree programs begin with the same 4 terms of core classes, covering business basics and including valuable certificates. For the accounting degree, you'll earn the accounting, strategic thinking and innovation, and leadership certificates. After finishing these core courses, you move forward to courses in your chosen major of Accounting, Business Management, Healthcare Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, or IT Management.

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A degree in accounting qualifies you to work in a number of positions related to accounting and finance. The positions you qualify for depend on your level of education. With a bachelor’s degree, you may be most qualified for entry-level positions as a bookkeeper, accounts payable specialist, or assistant payroll administrator. With a master’s degree in accounting and as a certified public accountant, you may find you’re more qualified for leadership positions and senior-level roles. These include accounting manager, auditor, investment banker, and chief financial officer.

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With a bachelor’s degree in accounting, you may be able to secure a job in a number of different accounting-related areas. While Certified Public Accountants often work more in management and senior-level positions, with a bachelor’s degree in accounting you may be qualified for some of the following entry-level positions:

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Yes! There are many online degree programs that offer accounting degrees online. Do your research to learn which kind of online university is the best fit for you. For example, WGU offers entirely online degrees and no set class times—you do your coursework on your schedule. This helps you take control of your education and earn an online accounting degree on your timeline. 

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There are many online colleges that offer accounting degree programs, so it's important to do your research to find the best fit for you. Look at tuition costs, accreditation, educational models, and coursework to figure out which program is best. WGU is highly reputable, accredited, and affordable. Our online accounting degree program has helped thousands of students pursue an accounting career and find success.

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An online accounting degree is extremely valuable if you want to become an accountant. For most accounting positions you will need at least a bachelor's degree. This will help you learn about fundamental accounting principles, rules, regulations, financial statements, and more. And if you want to become a CPA you'll absolutely need at least a bachelor's degree, if not a master's degree.

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An online accounting degree can be a fantastic choice if you are currently working full-time and want to maintain your job while furthering your education. An online accounting degree also allows you to get valuable credentials that boost your résumé, preparing you to move forward in your career. An online accounting degree can be a great option for many working professionals and students who are looking for an accessible degree option. 

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This degree prepares you to design, develop, and optimize systems that will meet industry needs, and gives you the opportunity to earn multiple **industry-recognized certifications**. + +Designed with input from industry experts, this program has received [ABET-accreditation](https://amspub.abet.org/aps/name-search?searchType=institution&keyword=Western%20Governors%20University). The computer science degree program at WGU provides a solid foundation for the most  **in-demand skills**: + +* **Artificial Intelligence (AI)** +* **Machine Learning** +* **Logic** +* **Architecture and systems** +* **Data structures** +* **Computer theory** +* **Version Control** +* **Linux** + +You can earn while you learn with this information technology degree. **Top technology certifications**, such as Linux Esssentials and ITIL® Foundation Certificate, as well as Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer, Back-End Developer, and Java Developer are **built into the CS degree program** and do not add time or additional costs—but they do add to your résumé as soon as you've earned them, even before you complete your degree! Students get a chance to be part of the first-ever School of Technology Online Teamwork Course, designed to enhance student collaboration and teamwork skills in a virtual environment. + +_Have questions? [Attend our prospective student webinar to learn more about our programs.](https://www.wgu.edu/lp/webinar/wst-open-house.html)_ + +62% of graduates finish within  + +25 Months\* + +WGU lets you move more quickly through material you already know and advance as soon as you're ready. The result: You may finish faster. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Flexible Schedule](#schedule) + +Tuition per six-month term is + +$4,125 + +Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their degree. Finish faster, pay less! + +[Cost & Time](#cost) + +Average salary increase + +$24,565 + +WGU Computer Science graduates report an average salary increase of $24,565 after completing this degree program. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Career Outlook](#career) + + + +Earn Two Degrees, Faster + +If you don't have a bachelor's degree and are looking at furthering your education in computer science you can pursue an accelerated bachelor's AND master's degree program. This accelerated bridge program allows you to earn 2 computer science degrees faster—taking less courses overall and saving time and money! + + Technology + +COMPARE + +Accelerated Computer Science Bachelor's and Master's Degree + +[VIEW DEGREE](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science/accelerated.html) + +Earn both your bachelor’s and master's in computer science to enhance your... + +Earn both your bachelor’s and master's in computer science to enhance your experience and skillset. + +MORE DETAILS + +[APPLY NOW](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +* **Time:** Approximately 5 years. +* **Tuition**: $4,195 per 6-month term for the bachelor's degree; $4,385 per term for the master's portion. +* **Courses:** 48 total courses in this program. + +**Certifications included in this program at no additional cost:** + +* **ITIL** +* **Linux Essentials** +* **WGU Back-End Developer** +* **WGU AI Optimization Developer** +* **WGU Java Developer**  + +**Skills for your résumé that you will learn in this program:** + +* **Computer system design** +* **System development** +* **Computer architecture** +* **Data structures** +* **Project management** + +This program allows students to earn their bachelor's degree in computer science and move directly into a master's degree in computer science, cutting down on the total number of courses to complete. + +Ready to Start Your WGU Journey? + +**Next Start Date: {{startdate}}** + +Start Dates the 1st of Every Month + +[Apply Today](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +COURSES + +Computer Science Courses +------------------------ + +**Program consists of 37 courses** + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science/program-guide.html) + +Earning an online ABET-accredited bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, designed by industry experts, combines theoretical depth and technical know-how. This program enhances the practical knowledge you have gained through experience and certifications. The experts who make up our [IT Program Council](https://www.wgu.edu/about/governance/it-college.html) know exactly what it takes for an online degree program to help you be successful in the field of computer science. + +This program focuses on the skills you need to become a linchpin in your organization. In addition to core IT skills, the program focuses on algorithms and data structures, artificial intelligence and robotics, database and information retrieval, human-computer communication, numerical and symbolic computation, and more. Start earning your degree online today. + +The B.S. Computer Science degree program is an all-online program that you will complete by studying and working independently with instruction and support from WGU faculty. You will be expected to complete at least 13 competency units each 6-month term. (One course is typically 3 or 4 units.) + +[WHAT ABOUT TRANSFER CREDITS?](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers.html) + +Program consists of: 37 courses + +An unofficial estimated 14 courses are fulfilled by your associate degree leaving 27 courses. + +I Have an Associate Degree + +[Estimate My Transfer Credits](https://www.wgu.edu/transfer-estimator.html) + +Courses Fulfilled By Your Associate Degree + +This is an unofficial estimate of your transfer credits. You may receive more or less credits depending upon the specific courses taken to complete your degree and other credits you may have. + +Below are the anticipated courses that will be fulfilled based on your indication that you have earned an associate’s degree. 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The course emphasizes applications in computer science. Calculus I is a prerequisite for this course. + +Discrete Mathematics II + +Discrete Mathematics II addresses abstract, discrete, computational methods used in computer science. In particular, this class introduces searching and sorting algorithms; big-O estimates; number theory and cryptography; recursion and induction; counting and advanced counting techniques; discrete probability; and modeling computation. This course emphasizes applications in computer science. Discrete Mathematics I is a prerequisite for this course. + +Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others + +Welcome to Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others! It may seem like common knowledge that communication skills are important, and that communicating with others is inescapable in our everyday lives. While this may appear simplistic, the study of communication is actually complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. Strong communication skills are invaluable to strengthening a multitude of aspects of life. Specifically, this course will focus on communication in the professional setting, and present material from multiple vantage points, including communicating with others in a variety of contexts, across situations, and with diverse populations. Upon completion, you will have a deeper understanding of both your own and others’ communication behaviors, and a toolbox of effective behaviors to enhance your experience in the workplace. + +Composition: Successful Self-Expression + +Welcome to Composition: Successful Self-Expression! In this course, you will focus on four main topics: professional writing for a cross-cultural audience, narrowing research topics and questions, researching for content to support a topic, and referencing research sources. Each section includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. Assessment activities with feedback also provide opportunities to check your learning, practice, and show how well you understand course content. Because the course is self-paced, you may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as you need to gain proficiency in the seven competencies that will be covered in the final assessment. If you have no prior knowledge or experience, you can expect to spend 30-40 hours on the course content. You will demonstrate competency through a performance assessment. There is no prerequisite for this course and there is no specific technical knowledge needed. + +American Politics and the US Constitution + +American Politics and the U.S. Constitution examines the evolution of representative government in the United States and the changing interpretations of the civil rights and civil liberties protected by the Constitution. This course will give candidates an understanding of the powers of the branches of the federal government, the continual tensions inherent in a federal system, the shifting relationship between state and federal governments, and the interactions between elected officials and the ever-changing electorate. This course will focus on such topics as the role of a free press in a democracy, the impact of changing demographics on American politics, and the debates over and expansion of civil rights. Upon completion of the course, candidates should be able to explain the basic functions of the federal government, describe the forces that shape American policy and politics, and be better prepared to participate in America’s civic institutions. This course has no prerequisite. + +Ethics in Technology + +Ethics in Technology examines the ethical considerations of technology use in the 21st century and introduces students to a decision-making process informed by ethical frameworks. Students will study specific cases related to important topics such as surveillance, social media, hacking, data manipulation, plagiarism and piracy, artificial intelligence, responsible innovation, and the digital divide. This course has no prerequisites. + +Natural Science Lab + +This course provides students an introduction to using the scientific method and engaging in scientific research to reach conclusions about the natural world. Students will design and carry out an experiment in the natural sciences to investigate a hypothesis by gathering quantitative data. They will also research a specific topic in the natural sciences using academic sources and draw conclusions from their findings. + +Introduction to Systems Thinking and Applications + +Introduction to Systems Thinking and Applications provides learners with the skills required to engage in a holistic systems-based approach to analyzing complex problems and solutions. This course introduces the foundational concepts and principles of systems thinking and provides opportunities to use a systems thinking approach to analyze and evaluate real-world case studies. The course will culminate with using systems thinking to develop a solution to an authentic complex problem. This course has no prerequisites, but general education math (C955 or C957) is preferred. Because the course is self-paced, learners may move through the material as quickly or as slowly as needed, with the goal of demonstrating proficiency in the five competencies covered in the final assessment. If learners have no prior knowledge of this material, they can expect to spend 30 to 40 hours on the course content. + +Data Management + +Data Management - Foundations + +Data Management Foundations offers an introduction in creating conceptual, logical and physical data models.  Students gain skills in creating databases and tables in SQL-enabled database management systems, as well as skills in normalizing databases. No prerequisites are required for this course. + +Data Management - Applications + +Data Management - Applications covers conceptual data modeling and introduces MySQL. Students will learn how to create simple to complex SELECT queries, including subqueries and joins, and how to use SQL to update and delete data. Topics covered in this course include exposure to MySQL; creating and modifying databases, tables, views, foreign keys and primary keys (FKs and PKs), and indexes; populating tables; and developing simple Select-From-Where (SFW) queries to complex 3+ table join queries. The following course is a prerequisite: Data Management - Foundations. + +Operating Systems + +Linux Foundations + +Linux Foundations prepares learners for the LPI Linux Essentials certification, and is an introduction to Linux as an operating system as well as an introduction to open-source concepts and the basics of the Linux command line. Learners will gain skills in identifying the fundamentals of open-source software and to develop resources for data access and security. + +Web Development + +Web Development Foundations + +Welcome to Web Development Foundations! In this course you will learn about web design and development using HTML and CSS. 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This course also introduces the elements and phases of software engineering, including requirements engineering, design concepts, and software quality. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Computer Science + +Introduction to Computer Science + +Introduction to Computer Science introduces learners to the field of computer science and its essential concepts. In this course students will explore, among other topics, programming basics through language-agnostic pseudocode, computational thinking and problem-solving, algorithms, hardware, and social and ethical considerations in the field. This course is designed for beginners to gain a solid understanding of computer science principles and their applications and prepare students for further study in the field. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Advanced AI and ML + +Advanced AI and ML provides an opportunity for students to exercise their knowledge and skills in the design and development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions for real-world business problems. Through a hands-on project, students delve into the design and execution planning stages. The course culminates with the development of a fully functional AI/ ML product. + +Computer Architecture + +Computer Architecture introduces students to concepts and characteristics of organization and architecture applied to modern computer systems, including performance, processor, memory, I/O, and multiprocessors to optimize system design, performance, and efficiency. + +Data Structures and Algorithms I + +Data Structures and Algorithms I covers the fundamentals of dynamic data structures, such as bags, lists, stacks, queues, trees, and hash tables with their associated algorithms. This course discusses object-oriented design and abstract data types as design paradigms. The course emphasizes problem-solving and techniques for designing efficient, maintainable software applications. Students will implement simple applications using the techniques learned. + +Data Structures and Algorithms II + +Data Structures and Algorithms II explores the analysis and implementation of high-performance data structures and supporting algorithms, including graphs, hashing, self-adjusting data structures, set representations, and dynamic programming. The course also introduces students to NP-complete problems. The course discusses how to use Python techniques to implement software solutions for problems of memory management and data compression. This course has two prerequisites: Data Structures and Algorithms I and Discrete Math II. + +Practical Applications of Prompt + +The Practical Applications of Prompt course introduces learners to generative artificial intelligence (AI). This course aims to allow learners to gain skills for writing effective prompts and develop more effective conversations with artificial intelligence. Practical Applications of Prompt will lead learners to explore why prompt engineering is necessary. The course also aims to help learners, regardless of background, increase prompt fluency, which is fluency in using prompt effectively. The course teaches learners how to create effective prompts to elicit information with consideration of scope, specificity, and context; additionally, it teaches learners to evaluate the medium of the prompt and adjust prompts to output relevant results. The last section of the course focuses on ways to evaluate the efficacy of prompts and improve the depth and quality of analytical investigations. 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The final artifact is a business proposal aimed at convincing stakeholders to implement the project, which includes an executive summary of product requirements directed at the IT audience, as well as a technical report of the fully functional data product intended to solve a real-world problem. Artifacts are evaluated by peer team members prior to submission, and students practice giving, receiving, and integrating feedback into their work process. + +Secure Systems Analysis & Design + +Fundamentals of Information Security + +This course lays the foundation for understanding terminology, principles, processes, and best practices of information security at local and global levels. It further provides an overview of basic security vulnerabilities and countermeasures for protecting information assets through planning and administrative controls within an organization. This course has no prerequisites. + +Software + +Scripting and Programming - Applications + +In this undergraduate course students explore the various aspects of the C++ programming language by examining its syntax, the development environment, and tools and techniques to solve some real-world problems. + +Java Fundamentals + +Java Fundamentals introduces you to object-oriented programming in the Java language. You will create and call methods, design Java classes, and other object-oriented principles and constructs to develop software that meets business requirements. This course requires foundational knowledge of programming including variables, type, program flow and debugging. + +Java Frameworks + +Java Frameworks builds object-oriented programming expertise and introduces powerful new tools for Java application development. Students will execute exception handling, Java frameworks, and other object-oriented principles and constructs to develop a complete application including a user interface. This course requires foundational knowledge of object-oriented programming and the Java language. + +Back-End Programming + +Back-End Programming introduces students to creating back-end components of a web application with the support of framework packages. This course also teaches students how to implement database functionality in a web application and how to create web services. This course requires intermediate expertise in object-oriented programming and the Java language. + +Advanced Java + +Advanced Java refines object-oriented programming expertise and skills. You will implement multithreaded, object-oriented code with the features of Java necessary to develop software that meets business requirements. Additionally, you will determine how to deploy software applications using cloud services. This course requires intermediate expertise in object-oriented programming and the Java language. + +Software Design and Quality Assurance + +Software Design and Quality Assurance applies a QA focus to every phase of the software development life cycle. This course investigates best practices for quality analysis, quality planning, and testing strategies as they pertain to the everyday practice of software development. Students will come to understand how their work fits into the bigger picture: how QA, testing, and code-writing practices interact within specific process models; the potential impact of new code on existing code or on other applications; the importance of usability and the influence users have on the ultimate success of an application. Students will explore test plans, test cases, unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, usability tests, and test and review tools. + +Full Stack Engineering + +Version Control + +Version control is critical to maintaining software and enabling scalability solutions. A best practice for any programming project that requires multiple files uses version control. Version control enables teams to have collaborative workflows and enhances the software development lifecycle. This course introduces students to the basics of publishing, retrieving, branching, and cloning. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Network and Security + +Network and Security - Foundations + +Network and Security - Foundations introduces learners to the basic network systems and concepts related to networking technologies. Learners will gain skills in applying network security concepts for business continuity, data access, and confidentiality, and in identifying solutions for compliance with security guidance. + +Business of IT + +Business of IT - Applications + +Business of IT - Applications examines Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) terminology, structure, policies, and concepts. Focusing on the management of information technology (IT) infrastructure, development, and operations, learners will explore the core principles of ITIL practices for service management to prepare them for careers as IT professionals, business managers, and business process owners. This course has no prerequisites. + +37 Courses + +Program consists of 37 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science/program-guide.html) + +Teamwork Project + +Special requirements for this program + +At the end of your program, you will complete a teamwork project that represents the culmination of all your hard work—a project that allows you to take what you’ve learned and apply it to a real-world situation, proposing a solution to an actual issue faced to your peers and incorporate their feedback.  + +[Request Info](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +WGU vs. Traditional Universities +Compare the Difference +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Traditional Universities + +**Western Governors University** + +AVG. cost +For 3RD PARTY IT CERTIFICATIONS + +$350\* + +Included with your tuition cost + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 4 years, minimal acceleration options + +As quickly as you can master the material, typically less than 3 years + +TRANSFER CREDITS + +Few accepted, based on certain schools and specific courses + +A generous transfer policy that is based on your specific situation + +_\*The cost of valuable industry certification exams can range from $150 to $400. At WGU, we offer vouchers for certification exams, so the cost is included in your tuition price. Students may have to pay additional fees for membership to complete the certification requirements._ + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Traditional Universities + +**Western Governors University** + +AVG. cost +For 3RD PARTY IT CERTIFICATIONS + +$350\* + +AVG. cost +For 3RD PARTY IT CERTIFICATIONS + +Included with your tuition cost + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +SUPPORT + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +EXAMS + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +SCHEDULE + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 4 years, minimal acceleration options + +TIME TO FINISH + +As quickly as you can master the material, typically less than 3 years + +TRANSFER CREDITS + +Few accepted, based on certain schools and specific courses + +TRANSFER CREDITS + +A generous transfer policy that is based on your specific situation + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +_\*The cost of valuable industry certification exams can range from $150 to $400. At WGU, we offer vouchers for certification exams, so the cost is included in your tuition price. Students may have to pay additional fees for membership to complete the certification requirements._ + +Why WGU? + +Affordability + +WGU tuition is charged per six-month term, not per credit. That means if you want to move faster through the online computer science degree program, you'll pay less. + +[PAYING FOR SCHOOL](#cost) + +On Your Schedule + +No class times, no assignment deadlines. You are in charge of your learning and schedule. You can move through your courses as quickly as you master the material, meaning you can graduate faster.  + +[A FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE](#schedule) + +Entirely Online + +The network engineering and security bachelor's degree at WGU is 100% online, which means it works wherever you are. You can do your coursework at night after working at your full-time job, on weekends, while you're traveling the world or on vacation—it's entirely up to you. + +[ADMISSIONS INFO](#admissions) + +Accredited, Respected, +Recognized™ + +The flexibility you need. The respect you deserve. Earn a degree and IT certifications at the same time with WGU. Boost your résumé and showcase your talents to impress employers and set yourself apart from the competition. + +IT CERTIFICATIONS + +3rd Party Computer Science Certifications Included +-------------------------------------------------- + +* * * + +**Industry certifications** in this degree program include a Linux certification, as well as the ITIL® 4 Foundation certification.  +  +The cost of these certifications are **included in your tuition**, helping you save money as you enhance your skills. Earning certifications before you’ve even finished your degree gives you the knowledge, skills, and credentials that will immediately boost your résumé. + +The computer science bachelor's degree program allows students to earn valuable credentials on their path to a degree, including the Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer, Back-End Developer, and Java Developer certificates. These WGU certificates allow you to demonstrate mastery and add credentials to your résumé before you even graduate with your degree. + +[SEE MORE ABOUT CERTIFICATIONS](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/it-certifications.html) + +* WGU Certificate + +[Java Developer + +Java Developer](https://wgu.badgr.com/public/badges/gqX2hTVFQ2Scu95xTvAh-w) + +* WGU Certificate + +[Back-End Developer + +Back-End Developer](https://wgu.badgr.com/public/badges/A_NJvOaXRlSyRgeYW6mGHA) + +* WGU Certificate + +[Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer + +Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer](https://wgu.badgr.com/public/badges/Y0cTbpwcS1ez3B44MxHiSg) + + + +* Linux Essentials + +* ITIL® 4 Foundation Certification + +COST & TIME + +An Affordable CS Degree +----------------------- + +By charging per six-month term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +[Apply FREE](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Tuition Calculator + +Pay less by completing your program faster + +TOTAL COST: + +$ + +0 + +. + +5 + +1 + +1 + +. + +5 + +2 + +2 + +. + +5 + +3 + +3 + +. + +5 + +4 + +YEARS + +Cost Breakdown + +Tuition + +$4,125 + +E-Books and Resources Fee + ++ $200 + +* * * + +TOTAL (per 6-month term) + +\= $ + +6-month terms + +X + +* * * + +Total Cost + +\= $ + +### A College Degree Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half\* the national average. + +[Responsible Borrowing Initiative](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid/responsible-borrowing-initiative.html) + +Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits.  + +[Financial Aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html) + +Many scholarship opportunities are available. Find out what you might be eligible for. + +[Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) + +#### \*_WGU undergraduate students have approximately half the debt at graduation compared to the national average, according to the Institute for College Access and Success (2022)._ + +FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE + +A Different Way to Learn: Degree Programs Designed to Fit Your Life—and All the Demands on Your Time +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Professional responsibilities. Family obligations. Personal commitments. At WGU, we understand schedules are tight and often unpredictable for adult students. That’s why we offer a **flexible, personalized** approach to how education should be. No rigid class schedules. Just a solid, career-focused teaching program that meshes with your current lifestyle. You'll be challenged. You'll work hard. But if you commit yourself and put in the hours needed, WGU makes it possible for you to earn a **highly respected degree** as a busy working adult. + +[REQUEST MORE INFO](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +_"Online classes were great. Sometimes I would have difficulty on a subject and was able to promptly contact my instructor for further help. Scheduling a phone call was also easy.”_ + +**—Lehi Toskin +B.S. Computer Science** + + + +CAREER OUTLOOK + +Computer Scientists Are in High Demand +-------------------------------------- + +The field of computer science is rapidly expanding into some truly exciting areas, including **artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent systems, and human-computer interaction**. Increase your earning potential, **boost your résumé with valuable credentials**, and find a career you love with the help of a computer science degree. + +According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are almost 10 times more U.S. computing jobs open than there were students who graduated with a computer science degree in 2015. When you’ve completed WGU’s online Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree program, you’ll **find yourself in demand** because of the skills, knowledge, and certifications you’ve gained. Stand out from the competition and become a vital player on a team with the help of the right program. + +[MORE ABOUT CAREERS](https://www.wgu.edu/career-guide/information-technology.html) + +### Return on Your Investment + +### Many WGU graduates may see an increase in income post-graduation + +[](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) + +_Average income increase in annual salary vs. pre-enrollment salary from all degrees. Source: [2024 Harris Poll](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) of 1,655 WGU graduates._ + +_Survey was sent to a representative sample of WGU graduates from all colleges. Respondents received at least one WGU degree since 2017._ + +21% + +_The market for computer and information research scientists is projected to grow 21% through 2031._ + +**—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics** + +### Learn About Careers for Computer Science Graduates + +Some of the job titles and industries a graduate of this computer science bachelor’s degree program are qualified for include: + +**Job Titles** + +* Software Engineer +* Software Developer +* Computer & Information Systems Manager +* Business Intelligence Analyst +* Machine Learning Specialist + +**Diverse Industries** + +* Technology +* Aerospace +* Banking and Finance +* Military +* Consulting + +**Major Employers** + +* Amazon +* JPMorgan Chase +* Microsoft +* Apple +* Northrop Gruman  + +### WGU Grads Hold Positions With Top Employers + +[Explore More](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/education-outcomes/new-career.html) + +ADMISSIONS + +Computer Science Admission Requirements +--------------------------------------- + +Students must be able to use key Calculus principles, rules, and applications while in the B.S. Computer Science program. Students must meet the following admission requirements for admittance to this program: + + +1.    Possess a high school diploma or its equivalent. + +2.    Demonstrate readiness through completion of **_one_** of the following: + +* **Option 1**: Submit all transcripts documenting completion of college-level coursework with a minimum of 2.25 cumulative GPA or higher, AND successful and verifiable completion of a precalculus (or higher level) course from a WGU approved third-party provider with a grade “C” or better. +* **Option 2**: A high school cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher, AND successful, verifiable completion of a precalculus (or higher level) advanced mathematics course with a grade of B or better. + +If no previous precalculus course has been completed by the time of application, students can complete this course through [WGU Academy](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/personalized-start/courses.html) for a $25 course fee prior to matriculation." + +NOTE: You do not need to take the ACT or SAT to be admitted to this program. [Learn why we don't require these tests](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/no-standardized-testing.html). + +[GENERAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/it-requirements.html) + +Get Your Enrollment Checklist + +Download your step-by-step guide to enrollment. + +[VIEW CHECKLIST](https://www.wgu.edu/content/dam/wgu-65-assets/western-governors/documents/admissions/checklist_general.pdf) + +Get Your Questions Answered + +Talk to an WGU Enrollment Counselor. + +[CONTACT AN ENROLLMENT COUNSELOR](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +Transfer Credits + +------------------- + +If you’ve taken courses, have earned certifications, or received a degree from a community college or another university, you're likely already well on your way to a WGU degree. **You can almost always transfer credits when you send accredited bachelor's or asociate degree transcripts.** + +WGU’s curriculum structure is competency-based, allowing you to apply your existing knowledge and skills to your education. **Students with an Associate of Arts (A.A.) or Associate of Science (A.S.) degree usually qualify for upper-division standing at WGU.** + +Depending on your degree program, you may qualify for additional requirement waivers. **If you have completed some college coursework but have not earned a degree, WGU will conduct  a transcript evaluation.** Your experience may waive some of your requirements. + +[TRANSFER INFORMATION](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers/transfer-to-wgu.html) + +Ready to Start Your WGU Journey? + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +### The University + +* [About Us](https://www.wgu.edu/about.html) +* [Accessibility](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/accessibility.html) +* [Accreditation](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/learning/accreditation.html) +* [Newsroom](https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom.html) +* [Careers](https://www.wgu.edu/about/careers.html) +* [WGU Store](/lp/programs/wgu-store.html) + +### For Students + +* [Student Portal](https://www.wgu.edu/student-portal.html) +* [Admissions](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions.html) +* [Catalog](https://www.wgu.edu/about/institutional-catalog.html) +* [Title IX](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/title-ix.html) +* [Alumni Services](https://www.wgu.edu/alumni.html) +* [Achievement Wallet](/achievement-wallet.html) + +### Most Visited Links + +* [Business Programs](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees.html) +* [Bachelor's Degrees](https://www.wgu.edu/online-degree-programs/bachelors.html) +* [Transfers](/admissions/transfers.html) +* [Student Experience](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience.html) +* [Online Degrees](https://www.wgu.edu/content/wgu-marketing/en/online-degree-programs) +* [Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) +* [Partnerships](https://www.wgu.edu/partnerships.html) + +### Support + +* [Military](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/military.html) +* [Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) +* [Financial Aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html) +* [Blog](/blog.html) +* [Faculty](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/how-you-learn/faculty.html) +* [Testimonials](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/student-resources/testimonials.html) +* [Student Communities](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/student-resources/communities.html) + +[Privacy Policy](https://www.wgu.edu/privacy.html) | [Cookie Policy](https://www.wgu.edu/privacy/cookies.html) | [Contact Us](https://www.wgu.edu/contact.html) | [Sitemap](https://www.wgu.edu/sitemap.html) + +[](https://www.linkedin.com/edu/western-governors-university-19563) [](https://www.facebook.com/wgu.edu/) [](https://www.instagram.com/westerngovernorsu/) [](https://www.youtube.com/user/WesternGovernorsUniv) [](https://www.tiktok.com/@wgu) + +©2026 WGU. All rights reserved. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/eval/wgu/bs-computer-science/page-annotated.md b/eval/wgu/bs-computer-science/page-annotated.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..163b871 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/bs-computer-science/page-annotated.md @@ -0,0 +1,392 @@ +# WGU — B.S. Computer Science + +**Source URL:** https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html +**Captured:** 2026-07-01 +**Raw HTML:** `bs-computer-science.html` (470,464 bytes) + +--- + +## CTDL-relevant content on this page + +- **Program name** (`ceterms:name`): "Bachelor of Science Online Computer Science Degree" +- **Description** (`ceterms:description`): "Earn your bachelor's degree in computer science from WGU and increase your earning potential, job security, and opportunities for advancement. This degree prepares you to design, develop, and optimize systems that will meet industry needs." +- **Credential type** (`ceterms:credentialType`): Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — `ceterms:BachelorDegree` +- **Time to complete** (`ceterms:estimatedDuration`): "62% of graduates finish within 25 Months"; "As quickly as you can master the material, typically less than 3 years" +- **Cost** (`ceterms:estimatedCost`): "Tuition per six-month term is $4,125" + "$200" e-books/resources fee = $4,325 total per term +- **Credit units** (`ceterms:creditValue`): "at least 13 competency units each 6-month term. (One course is typically 3 or 4 units.)" +- **Course count**: "Program consists of 37 courses" +- **Admission requirements** (`ceterms:requires` / `ceterms:entryCondition`): "Possess a high school diploma or its equivalent" AND one of: (Option 1) college-level coursework with min 2.25 cumulative GPA + precalculus grade C or better; (Option 2) high school GPA 2.75+ with precalculus grade B or better. "You do not need to take the ACT or SAT to be admitted to this program." +- **Delivery mode** (`ceterms:deliveryType`): "The B.S. Computer Science degree program is an all-online program" +- **Learning outcomes / competencies** (`ceterms:teaches` / `ceterms:targetCompetency`): "Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Logic, Architecture and systems, Data structures, Computer theory, Version Control, Linux"; also "Computer system design, System development, Computer architecture, Data structures, Project management" +- **Courses** (`ceterms:hasPart` / `ceterms:targetLearningOpportunity`): Introduction to Computer Science; Advanced AI and ML; Computer Architecture; Data Structures and Algorithms I; Data Structures and Algorithms II; Operating Systems for Computer Scientists; Introduction to AI for Computer Scientists; Artificial Intelligence Optimization for Computer Scientists; Java Fundamentals; Java Frameworks; Back-End Programming; Advanced Java; Software Design and Quality Assurance; Version Control; Network and Security - Foundations; Business of IT - Applications; Linux Foundations; Software Engineering; Scripting and Programming - Foundations; Scripting and Programming - Applications; Data Management - Foundations; Data Management - Applications; Web Development Foundations; Fundamentals of Information Security; Practical Applications of Prompt; Computer Science Project Development with a Team; Health, Fitness, and Wellness; Applied Probability and Statistics; Calculus I; Discrete Mathematics I; Discrete Mathematics II; Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others; Composition: Successful Self-Expression; American Politics and the US Constitution; Ethics in Technology; Natural Science Lab; Introduction to Systems Thinking and Applications +- **Career outcomes / occupations** (`ceterms:occupationType`): "Software Engineer, Software Developer, Computer & Information Systems Manager, Business Intelligence Analyst, Machine Learning Specialist" +- **Industries** (`ceterms:industryType`): "Technology, Aerospace, Banking and Finance, Military, Consulting" +- **Accreditation** (`ceterms:accreditedBy`): "ABET-accreditation" +- **Embedded credentials** (`ceterms:hasPart` / embedded certifications): "Linux Essentials, ITIL® 4 Foundation Certification" (industry); "Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer, Back-End Developer, Java Developer" (WGU certificates) +- **Transfer / advanced standing** (`ceterms:advancedStandingFrom`): "Students with an Associate of Arts (A.A.) or Associate of Science (A.S.) degree usually qualify for upper-division standing at WGU." +- **Outcome data** (`qdata:`): "average salary increase of $24,565"; "market for computer and information research scientists is projected to grow 21% through 2031 — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics" + +--- + +# Bachelor of Science Online Computer Science Degree + +## Overview + +### An ABET-Accredited Online Computer Science Degree with an AI Focus + +Earn your bachelor's degree in computer science from WGU and **increase your earning potential**, job security, and opportunities for advancement. This degree prepares you to design, develop, and optimize systems that will meet industry needs, and gives you the opportunity to earn multiple **industry-recognized certifications**. + +Designed with input from industry experts, this program has received ABET-accreditation. The computer science degree program at WGU provides a solid foundation for the most **in-demand skills**: + +- **Artificial Intelligence (AI)** +- **Machine Learning** +- **Logic** +- **Architecture and systems** +- **Data structures** +- **Computer theory** +- **Version Control** +- **Linux** + +You can earn while you learn with this information technology degree. **Top technology certifications**, such as Linux Essentials and ITIL® Foundation Certificate, as well as Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer, Back-End Developer, and Java Developer are **built into the CS degree program** and do not add time or additional costs—but they do add to your résumé as soon as you've earned them, even before you complete your degree! Students get a chance to be part of the first-ever School of Technology Online Teamwork Course, designed to enhance student collaboration and teamwork skills in a virtual environment. + +### Key Statistics + +**62% of graduates finish within 25 Months** + +WGU lets you move more quickly through material you already know and advance as soon as you're ready. The result: You may finish faster. + +**Tuition per six-month term is $4,125** + +Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their degree. Finish faster, pay less! + +**Average salary increase $24,565** + +WGU Computer Science graduates report an average salary increase of $24,565 after completing this degree program. + +### Earn Two Degrees, Faster + +If you don't have a bachelor's degree and are looking at furthering your education in computer science you can pursue an accelerated bachelor's AND master's degree program. This accelerated bridge program allows you to earn 2 computer science degrees faster—taking less courses overall and saving time and money! + +#### Accelerated Computer Science Bachelor's and Master's Degree + +- **Time:** Approximately 5 years. +- **Tuition**: $4,195 per 6-month term for the bachelor's degree; $4,385 per term for the master's portion. +- **Courses:** 48 total courses in this program. + +**Certifications included in this program at no additional cost:** +- **ITIL** +- **Linux Essentials** +- **WGU Back-End Developer** +- **WGU AI Optimization Developer** +- **WGU Java Developer** + +**Skills for your résumé that you will learn in this program:** +- **Computer system design** +- **System development** +- **Computer architecture** +- **Data structures** +- **Project management** + +This program allows students to earn their bachelor's degree in computer science and move directly into a master's degree in computer science, cutting down on the total number of courses to complete. + +--- + +## Courses + +### Computer Science Courses + +**Program consists of 37 courses** + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +Earning an online ABET-accredited bachelor's degree in Computer Science, designed by industry experts, combines theoretical depth and technical know-how. This program enhances the practical knowledge you have gained through experience and certifications. The experts who make up our IT Program Council know exactly what it takes for an online degree program to help you be successful in the field of computer science. + +This program focuses on the skills you need to become a linchpin in your organization. In addition to core IT skills, the program focuses on algorithms and data structures, artificial intelligence and robotics, database and information retrieval, human-computer communication, numerical and symbolic computation, and more. Start earning your degree online today. + +The B.S. Computer Science degree program is an all-online program that you will complete by studying and working independently with instruction and support from WGU faculty. You will be expected to complete at least 13 competency units each 6-month term. (One course is typically 3 or 4 units.) + +### Courses Fulfilled By Your Associate Degree + +#### General Education + +**Health, Fitness, and Wellness** +Health, Fitness, and Wellness focuses on the importance and foundations of good health and physical fitness, particularly for children and adolescents. This course addresses health, nutrition, and fitness, and substance use and abuse. + +**Applied Probability and Statistics** +Applied Probability and Statistics is designed to help students develop competence in the fundamental concepts of basic statistics including: introductory algebra and graphing; descriptive statistics; regression and correlation; and probability. Statistical data and probability are often used in everyday life, science, business, information technology, and educational settings to make informed decisions about the validity of studies and the effect of data on decisions. + +**Calculus I** +This course guides candidates to apply theoretical concepts of calculus to real-world situations, demonstrating a developing mathematical mindset. This course focuses on limits, derivatives, integrals, and differential equations; it also prepares students for Discrete Mathematics. + +**Discrete Mathematics I** +Discrete Mathematics I helps candidates develop competence in the use of abstract, discrete structures fundamental to computer science. In particular, this course will introduce candidates to logic and proofs; Boolean algebra and functions; set theory; finite and infinite sequences and series; and relations, graphs, and trees. The course emphasizes applications in computer science. + +**Discrete Mathematics II** +Discrete Mathematics II addresses abstract, discrete, computational methods used in computer science. In particular, this class introduces searching and sorting algorithms; big-O estimates; number theory and cryptography; recursion and induction; counting and advanced counting techniques; discrete probability; and modeling computation. This course emphasizes applications in computer science. + +**Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others** +Welcome to Introduction to Communication: Connecting with Others! It may seem like common knowledge that communication skills are important, and that communicating with others is inescapable in our everyday lives. While this may appear simplistic, the study of communication is actually complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. Strong communication skills are invaluable to strengthening a multitude of aspects of life. Specifically, this course will focus on communication in the professional setting, and present material from multiple vantage points. + +**Composition: Successful Self-Expression** +In this course, you will focus on four main topics: professional writing for a cross-cultural audience, narrowing research topics and questions, researching for content to support a topic, and referencing research sources. Each section includes learning opportunities through readings, videos, audio, and other relevant resources. + +**American Politics and the US Constitution** +American Politics and the U.S. Constitution examines the evolution of representative government in the United States and the changing interpretations of the civil rights and civil liberties protected by the Constitution. + +**Ethics in Technology** +Ethics in Technology examines the ethical considerations of technology use in the 21st century and introduces students to a decision-making process informed by ethical frameworks. Students will study specific cases related to important topics such as surveillance, social media, hacking, data manipulation, plagiarism and piracy, artificial intelligence, responsible innovation, and the digital divide. + +**Natural Science Lab** +This course provides students an introduction to using the scientific method and engaging in scientific research to reach conclusions about the natural world. Students will design and carry out an experiment in the natural sciences to investigate a hypothesis by gathering quantitative data. + +**Introduction to Systems Thinking and Applications** +Introduction to Systems Thinking and Applications provides learners with the skills required to engage in a holistic systems-based approach to analyzing complex problems and solutions. + +#### Data Management + +**Data Management - Foundations** +Data Management Foundations offers an introduction in creating conceptual, logical and physical data models. 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The course is language-agnostic in nature, ending in a survey of languages, and introduces the distinction between interpreted and compiled languages. + +#### Information Technology Management + +**Software Engineering** +Software Engineering introduces the concepts of software engineering to students who have completed the core courses in programming and project management. The principles build on previously acquired concepts, switching the emphasis from programming simple routines to engineering robust and scalable software solutions. + +#### Computer Science + +**Introduction to Computer Science** +Introduction to Computer Science introduces learners to the field of computer science and its essential concepts. In this course students will explore programming basics through language-agnostic pseudocode, computational thinking and problem-solving, algorithms, hardware, and social and ethical considerations in the field. + +**Advanced AI and ML** +Advanced AI and ML provides an opportunity for students to exercise their knowledge and skills in the design and development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions for real-world business problems. + +**Computer Architecture** +Computer Architecture introduces students to concepts and characteristics of organization and architecture applied to modern computer systems, including performance, processor, memory, I/O, and multiprocessors. + +**Data Structures and Algorithms I** +Data Structures and Algorithms I covers the fundamentals of dynamic data structures, such as bags, lists, stacks, queues, trees, and hash tables with their associated algorithms. + +**Data Structures and Algorithms II** +Data Structures and Algorithms II explores the analysis and implementation of high-performance data structures and supporting algorithms, including graphs, hashing, self-adjusting data structures, set representations, and dynamic programming. + +**Practical Applications of Prompt** +The Practical Applications of Prompt course introduces learners to generative artificial intelligence (AI). This course aims to allow learners to gain skills for writing effective prompts and develop more effective conversations with artificial intelligence. + +**Operating Systems for Computer Scientists** +Operating Systems for Computer Scientists focuses on the intricacies of operating systems, covering core principles such as processes, threads, memory management, and file systems. + +**Introduction to AI for Computer Scientists** +Introduction to AI for Computer Scientists provides an overview of critical terminology and key concepts for artificial intelligence (AI). + +**Artificial Intelligence Optimization for Computer Scientists** +Artificial Intelligence Optimization for Computer Scientists guides students through the implementation and optimization of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for various applications. + +**Computer Science Project Development with a Team** +Computer Science Project Development with a Team has students prepare a prior project for submission to a mock technical and executive leadership team. + +#### Secure Systems Analysis & Design + +**Fundamentals of Information Security** +This course lays the foundation for understanding terminology, principles, processes, and best practices of information security at local and global levels. + +#### Software + +**Scripting and Programming - Applications** +In this undergraduate course students explore the various aspects of the C++ programming language by examining its syntax, the development environment, and tools and techniques to solve some real-world problems. + +**Java Fundamentals** +Java Fundamentals introduces you to object-oriented programming in the Java language. 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That means if you want to move faster through the online computer science degree program, you'll pay less. + +### On Your Schedule + +No class times, no assignment deadlines. You are in charge of your learning and schedule. You can move through your courses as quickly as you master the material, meaning you can graduate faster. + +### Entirely Online + +The network engineering and security bachelor's degree at WGU is 100% online, which means it works wherever you are. You can do your coursework at night after working at your full-time job, on weekends, while you're traveling the world or on vacation—it's entirely up to you. + +### Accredited, Respected, Recognized + +The flexibility you need. The respect you deserve. Earn a degree and IT certifications at the same time with WGU. Boost your résumé and showcase your talents to impress employers and set yourself apart from the competition. + +--- + +## IT Certifications + +### 3rd Party Computer Science Certifications Included + +**Industry certifications** in this degree program include a Linux certification, as well as the ITIL® 4 Foundation certification. + +The cost of these certifications are **included in your tuition**, helping you save money as you enhance your skills. Earning certifications before you've even finished your degree gives you the knowledge, skills, and credentials that will immediately boost your résumé. + +The computer science bachelor's degree program allows students to earn valuable credentials on their path to a degree, including the Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer, Back-End Developer, and Java Developer certificates. These WGU certificates allow you to demonstrate mastery and add credentials to your résumé before you even graduate with your degree. + +**WGU Certificates:** +- Java Developer +- Back-End Developer +- Artificial Intelligence Optimization Developer + +**Industry Certifications:** +- Linux Essentials +- ITIL® 4 Foundation Certification + +--- + +## Cost & Time + +### An Affordable CS Degree + +By charging per six-month term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +### Tuition Breakdown + +**Tuition:** $4,125 (per 6-month term) + +**E-Books and Resources Fee:** + $200 + +**TOTAL (per 6-month term):** = $4,325 + +#### A College Degree Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +- The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half the national average. +- Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits. +- Many scholarship opportunities are available. Find out what you might be eligible for. + +--- + +## Flexible Schedule + +### A Different Way to Learn: Degree Programs Designed to Fit Your Life + +Professional responsibilities. Family obligations. Personal commitments. At WGU, we understand schedules are tight and often unpredictable for adult students. 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According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are almost 10 times more U.S. computing jobs open than there were students who graduated with a computer science degree in 2015. When you’ve completed WGU’s online Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree program, you’ll find yourself in demand because of the skills, knowledge, and certifications you’ve gained. Stand out from the competition and become a vital player on a team with the help of the right program.

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Students must be able to use key Calculus principles, rules, and applications while in the B.S. Computer Science program. Students must meet the following admission requirements for admittance to this program:
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NOTE: You do not need to take the ACT or SAT to be admitted to this program. Learn why we don't require these tests.

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Contact our Talent Solutions team. + +Interested in offering this certificate to your employees? Contact our Talent Solutions team.](https://www.wgu.edu/partnerships/certificates-form.html) + +Time to complete certificate + +4 Months + +Learners should plan to dedicate 15–20 hours a week to the program.  + +[See more](#works) + +Certificate cost + +$1,125 + +Tuition covers costs for any e-textbooks or other resources. + +[Learn More](#cost) + +Certificate consists of + +3 courses + +This certificate has 3 courses, with 9 total credits. + +[See more](#courses) + +[Enroll Now](https://goacademy.wgu.edu/enrollment/welcome) + +COURSES + +Business Leadership Courses +--------------------------- + +WGU is known for the high return on investment of its degree programs. The Business Leadership certificate is no exception. The skillsets offered in this certificate are particularly valuable for emerging leaders who want to develop an understanding of their leadership strategy and foster their ability to effectively lead others. + +[DOWNLOAD THE STUDENT GUIDE](https://academyproduct.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/FFC/Checklist_BusinessLeadership.pdf) + +The certificate is a self-directed, competency-based program you can complete on your own schedule. We recommend dedicating 15–20 hours per week to successfully complete the program.   + +Please note that this program does not require a bachelor’s degree and provides transferable competency units towards a WGU School of Business bachelor’s degree program. + +The 3 courses in this program are: + +Fundamentals for Success in Business +------------------------------------ + +In this introductory course, you will get an overview of the field of business. You will look at how management, organizational structure, communication, and leadership styles affect the business environment. You will also explore power skills. These skills include time management, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and innovation. And they are essential to the success of business professionals. Finally, you will learn the importance of ethics in business.. + +[View Course Syllabus + +View Course Syllabus](https://academyproduct.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/FSB_D072A/PDF/BusinessSuccess_syllabus.pdf) + +Organizational Behavior +----------------------- + +In Organizational Behavior, you will explore how to lead and manage effectively in diverse business environments. You will explore individual behavior and how groups develop. You will also consider the nature of work teams, organizational culture, leadership, and performance improvement. Finally, you will demonstrate your ability to apply organizational leadership theories and management strategies in a series of scenario-based problems. + +[View Course Syllabus + +View Course Syllabus](https://academyproduct.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/OrgB_C715A/PDF/OrgBehavior_syllabus.pdf) + +Values-Based Leadership +----------------------- + +In Values-Based Leadership, you will engage in reflection, design, and scenario planning. Through a combination of theory, reflection, value alignment, and practice, you will examine and understand values-based leadership. You will also explore the foundations of creating a culture of care. In this course, you will have the opportunity to identify and define your personal values through an assessment and reflection process. Following that, you will evaluate business cases. Looking at these cases will give you the chance to map the influence of values on your own leadership. In scenario planning, you will practice implementing your values in your daily routine (i.e., behaviors) and then in a leadership setting. Through this course, you will see how values-based leadership is used in goal setting and problem-solving at an organizational level. + +[View Course Syllabus + +View Course Syllabus](https://academyproduct.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/VBL_D253A/PDF/VBLeadership_syllabus.pdf) + +**WGU CERTIFICATES POWERED BY WGU ACADEMY** + +### Why Choose a Certificate? + +If you're not quite ready to commit to a full degree program, want to try out online learning, or need a faster way to boost your résumé, a WGU certificate could be the right fit for you. With a certificate program, you can begin any time you want—no need to wait for the first of the month. WGU Certificates are also self-paced, so you can move as quickly as you are able to master the material. Plus, the certificate courses are transferrable to WGU degree programs, so you can continue your education whenever you're ready. + +100% Online Courses that Work with Your Schedule + +Our certificates are 100% online, and there are no set class times. This means you can work on your certificate whenever it makes sense for you and your busy schedule. You're in the driver's seat of your education. + +Full Suite of Support Services + +WGU has deep experience serving learners from a wide range of professional and academic backgrounds. Our instruction, coaching, tutoring, and career resources will help you complete your certificate and reach your goals. + +Competitive Pricing + +Our certificate is $1,125 for a four-month program. With a competitive price relative to similar programs, you’ll find that WGU Certificates can be of immediate market value, positioning you for your next leadership position. + +COST + +An Affordable Certificate +------------------------- + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their programs. + +Your tuition covers everything you need to succeed, including all e-textbooks, learning resources, and program access. You'll have **four months** to complete the program at your own pace, and most students finish within that term. If you need more time, your enrollment will automatically transition to a **$499 monthly subscription** until you’re finished. You can cancel at any time. Although financial aid isn't available, we offer installment plans to make getting started easy. + +[REQUEST MORE INFO](#form) + +$1,125 + +Total cost | No additional fees + +[Enroll Now](https://goacademy.wgu.edu/enrollment/welcome) + +* * * + +### Installment Plan + +4 monthly payments of $281.25 + +HOW IT WORKS + +Here's What You Can Expect from This Certificate +------------------------------------------------ + +* **This program is for emerging leaders, however this program does not require a bachelor’s degree, and provides transferable credit towards a WGU degree program.** +* To successfully complete this course, you must have **internet access, a computer, and an external webcam.** +* You will take the proctored objective assessments and submit your performance assessment for evaluation by our WGU Evaluation Team. You will have three attempts to pass the objective assessments. If you are unable to pass the objective assessment on the third attempt, you will have to pay additional fees for your exam. +* The program’s orientation course will introduce you to the full program experience and prepare you for success. +* This certificate will be self-directed, similar to other WGU competency-based courses, **allowing you to complete modules as quickly as you master the material.**  +* You are responsible for maintaining your pace toward completion and being self-directed in your coursework. + +* You should plan to dedicate 15–20 hours a week to the program.  + +[REQUEST MORE INFO](#form) + +ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS + +4 Months of Access + +* Chromebooks are not compatible with the online proctoring service.
 Therefore, they cannot be used to take proctored final exams. +* 
This course will require an external webcam.
 Webcams built into laptops or phones will not meet this requirement. + +System Requirements + +* Operating System Windows 8 or later; Mac OS X 10.11 or later +* Web Browser Latest Chrome (Preferred), Edge, Firefox or Safari browser +* Cookies Enabled + +Your 4-month Term plan + +Here's everything you need to know about what you're paying for: + +$1,125 +_or 4 payments of $562.50_ + +* * * + +Access period + +Your purchase provides you with access to your selected course or program for a 4-month Term. Set a personal goal to complete before that date. If you are unable to do so, that’s okay. If you need more time to complete, you can continue your access with an automatic Extension, billed at $499 per month. 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All rights reserved. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/eval/wgu/cert-leadership/page-annotated.md b/eval/wgu/cert-leadership/page-annotated.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c5620dc --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/cert-leadership/page-annotated.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +# WGU — Business Leadership Certificate + +**Source URL:** https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/certificates/leadership.html +**Captured:** 2026-07-01 +**Raw HTML:** `cert-leadership.html` (230,578 bytes) + +--- + +## CTDL-relevant content on this page + +- **Program name** (`ceterms:name`): "Business Leadership Certificate" +- **Description** (`ceterms:description`): "Enhance your résumé with the help of a business leadership certificate from the School of Business. This new certificate will expose you to foundational leadership principles such as: A comprehensive introduction to business fundamentals; Key concepts of organizational behavior; Execution in values-based leadership; Application of management strategies; Critical business concepts and theories." +- **Credential type** (`ceterms:credentialType`): Certificate — `ceterms:Certificate` +- **Time to complete** (`ceterms:estimatedDuration`): "4 Months"; "You should plan to dedicate 15–20 hours a week to the program" +- **Cost** (`ceterms:estimatedCost`): "$1,125 for a four-month program"; "4 monthly payments of $281.25"; if not finished in 4 months, "$499 monthly subscription"; "No additional fees" +- **Credit units** (`ceterms:creditValue`): "3 courses with 9 total credits" +- **Course count**: "3 courses" +- **Admission requirements** (`ceterms:requires` / `ceterms:entryCondition`): "This program does not require a bachelor's degree"; technical requirements: "internet access, a computer, and an external webcam"; "Operating System Windows 8 or later; Mac OS X 10.11 or later" +- **Delivery mode** (`ceterms:deliveryType`): "100% Online Courses"; "no set class times"; "self-directed, competency-based program" +- **Learning outcomes / competencies** (`ceterms:teaches`): "foundational leadership principles"; "business fundamentals"; "organizational behavior"; "values-based leadership"; "management strategies"; power skills — "time management, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and innovation" +- **Courses** (`ceterms:hasPart`): Fundamentals for Success in Business; Organizational Behavior; Values-Based Leadership +- **Career outcomes / industries** (`ceterms:industryType`): "Finance and Banking, Healthcare, Manufacturing, IT, Consulting, Nonprofit, Government" +- **Accreditation** (`ceterms:accreditedBy`): not stated on page +- **Stackable / transfer** (`ceterms:isPartOf` / `ceterms:isPreparationFor`): "provides transferable competency units towards a WGU School of Business bachelor's degree program"; "certificate courses are transferrable to WGU degree programs" +- **Assessment** (`ceterms:assessmentMethodType`): "You will take proctored objective assessments and submit performance assessments for evaluation by the WGU Evaluation Team. You will have three attempts to pass objective assessments." +- **Audience** (`ceterms:audienceType`): "emerging leaders" + +--- + +# Business Leadership Certificate + +## Boost Your Career with a Business Leadership Certificate + +Enhance your résumé with the help of a **business** **leadership certificate** from the **School of Business.** This new certificate will expose you to foundational leadership principles such as: + +- A comprehensive introduction to business fundamentals +- Key concepts of organizational behavior +- Execution in values-based leadership +- Application of management strategies +- Critical business concepts and theories + +This certificate also offers a **skills-based curriculum aligned with employer demand.** And upon completion, some courses may transfer competency units towards **a WGU School of Business degree program**. + +--- + +## Key Facts + +| Item | Detail | +|------|--------| +| Time to complete certificate | 4 Months | +| Weekly time commitment | 15–20 hours per week | +| Certificate cost | $1,125 | +| Courses included | 3 courses with 9 total credits | + +--- + +## Business Leadership Courses + +WGU is known for the high return on investment of its degree programs. The Business Leadership certificate is no exception. The skillsets offered in this certificate are particularly valuable for emerging leaders who want to develop an understanding of their leadership strategy and foster their ability to effectively lead others. + +The certificate is a self-directed, competency-based program you can complete on your own schedule. We recommend dedicating 15–20 hours per week to successfully complete the program. + +Please note that this program does not require a bachelor's degree and provides transferable competency units towards a WGU School of Business bachelor's degree program. + +### Fundamentals for Success in Business + +In this introductory course, you will get an overview of the field of business. You will look at how management, organizational structure, communication, and leadership styles affect the business environment. You will also explore power skills. These skills include time management, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and innovation. And they are essential to the success of business professionals. Finally, you will learn the importance of ethics in business. + +### Organizational Behavior + +In Organizational Behavior, you will explore how to lead and manage effectively in diverse business environments. You will explore individual behavior and how groups develop. You will also consider the nature of work teams, organizational culture, leadership, and performance improvement. Finally, you will demonstrate your ability to apply organizational leadership theories and management strategies in a series of scenario-based problems. + +### Values-Based Leadership + +In Values-Based Leadership, you will engage in reflection, design, and scenario planning. Through a combination of theory, reflection, value alignment, and practice, you will examine and understand values-based leadership. You will also explore the foundations of creating a culture of care. In this course, you will have the opportunity to identify and define your personal values through an assessment and reflection process. Following that, you will evaluate business cases. Looking at these cases will give you the chance to map the influence of values on your own leadership. In scenario planning, you will practice implementing your values in your daily routine (i.e., behaviors) and then in a leadership setting. Through this course, you will see how values-based leadership is used in goal setting and problem-solving at an organizational level. + +--- + +## Why Choose a Certificate? + +If you're not quite ready to commit to a full degree program, want to try out online learning, or need a faster way to boost your résumé, a WGU certificate could be the right fit for you. With a certificate program, you can begin any time you want—no need to wait for the first of the month. WGU Certificates are also self-paced, so you can move as quickly as you are able to master the material. Plus, the certificate courses are transferrable to WGU degree programs, so you can continue your education whenever you're ready. + +### 100% Online Courses that Work with Your Schedule + +Our certificates are 100% online, and there are no set class times. This means you can work on your certificate whenever it makes sense for you and your busy schedule. You're in the driver's seat of your education. + +### Full Suite of Support Services + +WGU has deep experience serving learners from a wide range of professional and academic backgrounds. Our instruction, coaching, tutoring, and career resources will help you complete your certificate and reach your goals. + +### Competitive Pricing + +Our certificate is $1,125 for a four-month program. With a competitive price relative to similar programs, you'll find that WGU Certificates can be of immediate market value, positioning you for your next leadership position. + +--- + +## Cost: An Affordable Certificate + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their programs. + +Your tuition covers everything you need to succeed, including all e-textbooks, learning resources, and program access. You'll have **four months** to complete the program at your own pace, and most students finish within that term. If you need more time, your enrollment will automatically transition to a **$499 monthly subscription** until you're finished. You can cancel at any time. Although financial aid isn't available, we offer installment plans to make getting started easy. + +**Total cost: $1,125 | No additional fees** + +### Installment Plan + +4 monthly payments of $281.25 + +--- + +## How It Works: Here's What You Can Expect + +- **Emerging leaders focus:** This program is for emerging leaders; however, it does not require a bachelor's degree and provides transferable credit towards a WGU degree program. +- **Technical requirements:** To successfully complete this course, you must have internet access, a computer, and an external webcam. +- **Assessment approach:** You will take proctored objective assessments and submit performance assessments for evaluation by the WGU Evaluation Team. You will have three attempts to pass objective assessments. If unable to pass on the third attempt, additional fees apply. +- **Orientation course:** The program's orientation course will introduce you to the full program experience and prepare you for success. +- **Self-directed learning:** This certificate will be self-directed, similar to other WGU competency-based courses, allowing you to complete modules as quickly as you master the material. +- **Pace responsibility:** You are responsible for maintaining your pace toward completion and being self-directed in your coursework. +- **Time commitment:** You should plan to dedicate 15–20 hours a week to the program. + +### System Requirements + +- **Operating System:** Windows 8 or later; Mac OS X 10.11 or later +- **Web Browser:** Latest Chrome (Preferred), Edge, Firefox or Safari browser +- **Cookies:** Enabled +- **Note on Chromebooks:** Chromebooks are not compatible with the online proctoring service and cannot be used for proctored final exams. +- **Webcam requirement:** This course requires an external webcam. 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"ceterms:description": { + "en-US": "Occupations that this credential prepares learners for" + }, + "ceterms:targetOccupation": [ + "_:d746c82f-d341-b015-9493-2bb8e2f1bd35", + "_:d927f05a-2bfb-9e47-49d5-3e9d94b14d99", + "_:c6863454-1a62-2abd-d456-937df5f3719c", + "_:9dbceec1-627a-3b32-8e05-b5216a30bf23", + "_:60ac385e-f9de-9de5-dece-4dfe3abf6ba1" + ] + } + ], + "ceterms:audienceLevelType": [ + { + "@type": "ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject", + "ceterms:framework": "https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel", + "ceterms:targetNode": "audLevel:PostSecondaryLevel", + "ceterms:frameworkName": { + "en-US": "Audience Level" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeName": { + "en-US": "Post-Secondary Level" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeDescription": { + "en-US": "Intended for those who have completed secondary level school programs or equivalent." + } + }, + { + "@type": "ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject", + "ceterms:framework": "https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel", + "ceterms:targetNode": "audLevel:MastersDegreeLevel", + "ceterms:frameworkName": { + "en-US": "Audience Level" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeName": { + "en-US": "Masters Degree Level" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeDescription": { + "en-US": "Intended for those who have completed a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent." + } + }, + { + "@type": "ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject", + "ceterms:framework": "https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel", + "ceterms:targetNode": "audLevel:GraduateLevel", + "ceterms:frameworkName": { + "en-US": "Audience Level" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeName": { + "en-US": "Graduate Level" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeDescription": { + "en-US": "Intended for those who enrolled in a degree program or other formal program above the baccalaureate level, such as a masters or doctoral degree program." + } + } + ], + "ceterms:credentialStatusType": { + "@type": "ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject", + "ceterms:framework": "https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/CredentialStatus", + "ceterms:targetNode": "credentialStat:Active", + "ceterms:frameworkName": { + "en-US": "Credential Status" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeName": { + "en-US": "Active" + }, + "ceterms:targetNodeDescription": { + "en-US": "Awards of the credential are ongoing." + } + }, + "ceterms:usesVerificationService": [ + "https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-6cc0acaa-87c9-46c5-8776-c1dd7805e605" + ] +} diff --git a/eval/wgu/cert-leadership/registry-proxy-aws-devops.md b/eval/wgu/cert-leadership/registry-proxy-aws-devops.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9323fd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/cert-leadership/registry-proxy-aws-devops.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +# WGU Certificate: AWS Cloud DevOps v1.1 + +**@type:** `ceterms:OpenBadge` +**CTID:** `ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159` +**Registry JSON-LD:** https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159 +**Credential Finder:** https://credentialfinder.org/resources/ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159 +**subjectWebpage:** https://api.badgr.io/public/badges/a9STuosRQuOqLKKKYhB9dQ + +--- + +## Populated `ceterms:*` properties + +### `ceterms:audienceLevelType` + +- (item 1): + - **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject + - **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel + - **ceterms:targetNode**: audLevel:PostSecondaryLevel + - **ceterms:frameworkName**: Audience Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Post-Secondary Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Intended for those who have completed secondary level school programs or equivalent. +- (item 2): + - **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject + - **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel + - **ceterms:targetNode**: audLevel:MastersDegreeLevel + - **ceterms:frameworkName**: Audience Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Masters Degree Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Intended for those who have completed a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent. +- (item 3): + - **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject + - **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel + - **ceterms:targetNode**: audLevel:GraduateLevel + - **ceterms:frameworkName**: Audience Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Graduate Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Intended for those who enrolled in a degree program or other formal program above the baccalaureate level, such as a masters or doctoral degree program. + +### `ceterms:credentialId` + +https://api.badgr.io/public/badges/a9STuosRQuOqLKKKYhB9dQ + +### `ceterms:credentialStatusType` + +- **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject +- **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/CredentialStatus +- **ceterms:targetNode**: credentialStat:Active +- **ceterms:frameworkName**: Credential Status +- **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Active +- **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Awards of the credential are ongoing. + +### `ceterms:ctid` + +ce-727764d7-b909-4e5c-b26a-c4d0fced2159 + +### `ceterms:description` + +Recipients of the AWS Cloud DevOps Certificate from Western Governors University have demonstrated their competence in skills associated with automated testing and deployment of cloud applications, with a focused alignment to Amazon Web Services. + +### `ceterms:image` + +https://api.badgr.io/public/badges/a9STuosRQuOqLKKKYhB9dQ/image + +### `ceterms:inLanguage` + +en-US + +### `ceterms:isPreparationFor` + +- (item 1): + - **@type**: ceterms:ConditionProfile + - **ceterms:name**: Occupations + - **ceterms:assertedBy**: https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a + - **ceterms:description**: Occupations that this credential prepares learners for + - **ceterms:targetOccupation**: _:d746c82f-d341-b015-9493-2bb8e2f1bd35, _:d927f05a-2bfb-9e47-49d5-3e9d94b14d99, _:c6863454-1a62-2abd-d456-937df5f3719c, _:9dbceec1-627a-3b32-8e05-b5216a30bf23, _:60ac385e-f9de-9de5-dece-4dfe3abf6ba1 + +### `ceterms:name` + +WGU Certificate: AWS Cloud DevOps v1.1 + +### `ceterms:offeredBy` + +https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a + +### `ceterms:ownedBy` + +https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a + +### `ceterms:requires` + +- (item 1): + - **@type**: ceterms:ConditionProfile + - **ceterms:name**: Open Badges Criteria + - **ceterms:assertedBy**: https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a + - **ceterms:description**: +Credential Detail + +Recipients of WGU’s AWS Cloud DevOps Certificate have demonstrated competence in the following areas via rigorous assessment activities completed through Western Governors University: + +Cloud Foundations + +The learner articulates the value proposition of cloud solutions in business scenarios. +The learner defines cloud security and compliance. +The learner identifies cloud technology solutions in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models. +The learner determines the best-fit solution for a proj… [+2416 chars] +- (item 2): + - **@type**: ceterms:ConditionProfile + - **ceterms:name**: WGU Certificate: AWS Cloud DevOps v1.1 + - **ceterms:assertedBy**: https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a + - **ceterms:description**: The indicated courses must be satisfied in order for a student to earn the credential. A student must be enrolled in a program and catalog version where the credential is embedded. Students must earn at least 50% of any micro-credential competency units from Western Governors University in order to be eligible. + - **ceterms:audienceLevelType**: + - (item 1): + - **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject + - **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel + - **ceterms:targetNode**: audLevel:PostSecondaryLevel + - **ceterms:frameworkName**: Audience Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Post-Secondary Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Intended for those who have completed secondary level school programs or equivalent. + - (item 2): + - **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject + - **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel + - **ceterms:targetNode**: audLevel:MastersDegreeLevel + - **ceterms:frameworkName**: Audience Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Masters Degree Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Intended for those who have completed a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent. + - (item 3): + - **@type**: ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject + - **ceterms:framework**: https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel + - **ceterms:targetNode**: audLevel:GraduateLevel + - **ceterms:frameworkName**: Audience Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeName**: Graduate Level + - **ceterms:targetNodeDescription**: Intended for those who enrolled in a degree program or other formal program above the baccalaureate level, such as a masters or doctoral degree program. + - **ceterms:targetLearningOpportunity**: https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-eac490a3-3f15-4314-88d1-4978bb060400, https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-f57f62a1-90e9-44b2-b2ca-f096fd156159, https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-68e125cb-6c77-41ab-a989-6bf987637a8c, https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-40e350e6-5888-4c88-9380-cbd9b331d908 + +### `ceterms:revokedBy` + +https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-036d082d-d80e-41a7-99a0-2d63a4ad3a4a + +### `ceterms:subjectWebpage` + +https://api.badgr.io/public/badges/a9STuosRQuOqLKKKYhB9dQ + +### `ceterms:usesVerificationService` + +https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-6cc0acaa-87c9-46c5-8776-c1dd7805e605 diff --git a/eval/wgu/mba/extracted.json b/eval/wgu/mba/extracted.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68ab962 --- /dev/null +++ b/eval/wgu/mba/extracted.json @@ -0,0 +1,259 @@ +{ + "slug": "mba", + "url": "file://mba.html", + "model": "claude-opus-4-5", + "sourceMarkdownChars": 27172, + "baseline": { + "items": [ + { + "credential_name": "Business Administration", + "credential_description": "An Online MBA That Delivers Real-World Leadership Skills. 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Every course is designed around the demands of business today—finance, operations, HR, marketing, and technology—so you graduate prepared to make an immediate impact. + +Recognized by _The Wall Street Journal_ as one of the top return-on-investment MBA programs, WGU helps you gain the cross-functional business expertise to stay agile, lead teams, and drive results in a changing marketplace. + +Graduates can finish within  + +12 months\* + +WGU lets you set a schedule so you can finish your MBA in just one year. You are in control of the schedule and timing for your online MBA program. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Flexible Schedule](#schedule) + +Tuition per six-month term is + +$4,805 + +See what your online MBA will cost at our university. Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. Finish faster, pay less! + +[Cost & Time](#cost) + +Average salary increase + +$14,025\* + +Master of Business Administration graduates report an average salary increase of $14,025 after completing their WGU degree. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Career Outlook](#career) + +Ready to Start Your WGU Journey? + +**Next Start Date: {{startdate}}** + +Start Dates the 1st of Every Month + +[Apply Today](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +COURSES + +MBA Courses +----------- + +Program consists of 11 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program/program-guide.html) + +This program is composed of the following business and management courses. You will typically complete them one at a time as you progress through your program, working with your Program Mentor each term to build your personalized degree plan. You’ll work through each course as quickly as you can master the material. As soon as you’re ready, you’ll pass the assessment, complete the course, and move on. You can finish as many courses as you're able each term at no additional cost—making it possible to graduate faster, for less. + +One-year MBA students can complete all coursework in two WGU terms. Your Program Mentor will help you set a schedule that enables you to finish your program quickly. [Learn more about the one-year MBA program at WGU.](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program/one-year-mba.html)  + +[](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program/one-year-mba.html)To ensure WGU graduates gain cutting-edge knowledge and skills sought by today’s employers, our Master of Business Administration was developed with significant input from global business leaders who serve on our Business Program Council. + +[About WGU's Business Program Council](https://www.wgu.edu/about/governance/business-college.html) + +Management + +Managing Organizations and Leading People + +This course covers principles of effective management and leadership that maximize organizational performance. The following topics are included: the role and functions of a manager, analysis of personal leadership styles, approaches to self-awareness and self-assessment, and application of foundational leadership and management skills. + +Managing Human Capital + +This course focuses on strategies and tools that managers use to maximize employee contribution and create organizational excellence. You will learn talent management strategies to motivate and develop employees as well as best practices to manage performance for added value. + +Management Communication + +This course prepares students for the communication challenges in organizations. Topics examined include theories and strategies of communication, persuasion, conflict management, and ethics that enhance communication to various audiences. + +Operations Management + +This course focuses on the strategic importance of operations management to overall performance. This course also emphasizes principles of supply chain management relevant to a variety of business operations ranging from manufacturing goods to retail services. You will examine the various planning, control, and decision-making tools and techniques of the operations function. + +Economics + +Global Economics for Managers + +This course examines how economic tools, techniques, and indicators can be used for solving organizational problems related to competitiveness, productivity, and growth. You will explore the management implications of a variety of economic concepts and effective strategies to make decisions within a global context. + +Marketing + +Marketing + +Marketing Fundamentals introduces students to principles of the marketing environment, social media, consumer behavior, marketing research, and market segmentation. Students will also explore marketing strategies that are related to products and services, distribution channels, promotions, sales, and pricing. + +Accounting + +Accounting for Decision Makers + +This course provides you with the accounting knowledge and skills to assess and manage a business. Topics include the accounting cycle, financial statements, taxes, and budgeting. This course will improve students’ ability to understand reports and use accounting information to plan and make sound business decisions. + +Leadership + +Ethical Leadership + +This course examines the ethical issues and dilemmas managers face. This course provides a framework for analysis of management-related ethical issues and decision-making action required for satisfactory resolution of these issues. + +Finance + +Financial Management + +This course covers practical approaches to analysis and decision-making in the administration of corporate funds, including capital budgeting, working capital management, and cost of capital. Topics include financial planning, management of working capital, analysis of investment opportunities, sources of long-term financing, government regulations, and global influences. This course will improve students’ ability to interpret financial statements and manage corporate finances. + +Strategy + +Data-Driven Decision Making + +This course presents critical problem-solving methodologies, including field research and data collection methods that enhance organizational performance. Topics include quantitative analysis, statistical and quality tools. You will improve your ability to use data to make informed decisions. + +Capstone + +MBA Capstone + +Welcome to the MBA Capstone course, the final course in your degree program. This course coalesces the competencies developed over the course of your degree program and looks ahead to your contributions to your professional field. You will demonstrate and hone your management skills by launching a new business from the ground up as an entrepreneur in a business simulation. You will also develop your personal brand and strategically plan your professional career path. + +11 Courses + +Program consists of 11 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program/program-guide.html) + +Capstone Project + +Special requirements for this program + +At the end of your program, you will complete a capstone project that represents the culmination of all your hard work—a project that allows you to take what you’ve learned and apply it to a real-world situation, proposing a solution to an actual issue you face in your place of business. + +[Request Info](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +**Skills For Your Résumé** + +As part of this program, you will develop a range of valuable skills that employers are looking for.  + +* **Management:** Identified and determined the resources required to effectively support an organization or process, ensuring optimal functionality and efficiency. +* **Operations:** Developed comprehensive systems with standard operating procedures (SOPs) for distinct parts of a business, promoting consistency, compliance, and operational excellence. +* **Communication:** Leveraged appropriate communication techniques to effectively persuade and guide outcomes. + +* **Data Analysis:** Applied analytical and logical reasoning skills to uncover valuable information crucial for decision-making processes. +* **Written Communication:** Addressed internal and external stakeholders using the most suitable written communication strategy for each audience, fostering effective communication and engagement. +* **Business Development:** Developed strategic plans for acquiring new business and expanding existing business in collaboration with the business development team. + +_“Because of WGU's competency-based program, I didn't have to get into things that I already knew. Instead I was able to use that for the things that were more challenging for me to learn.”_ + +**—Alvyn Joy Halili +MBA** + +WGU vs. Traditional Universities +Compare the Difference +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Traditional Universities + +Western Governors University + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 2 years, minimal acceleration options + +As quickly as you can master the material, can finish programs in 1 year + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Traditional Universities + +Western Governors University + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +SUPPORT + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +EXAMS + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +SCHEDULE + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 2 years, minimal acceleration options + +TIME TO FINISH + +As quickly as you can master the material, can finish programs in 1 year + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Why WGU? + +Earning Potential + +After graduation, WGU MBA master's degree graduates report earning $14,025 more per year\*. Are you ready to make more money? + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[PAYING FOR SCHOOL](#cost) + +Entirely Online + +Competency-based education means you can move as quickly through your degree as you can master the material. You don't have to log in to classes at a certain time—you are truly in the driver's seat of your education.  + +[ADMISSIONS INFO](#admissions) + +Entirely Online + +The Master of Business Administration degree at WGU is 100% online, which means it works wherever you are. You can do your coursework at night after working at your full-time job, on weekends, while you're traveling the world or on vacation—it's entirely up to you. + +[A FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE](#schedule) + +Accredited, Respected, Recognized™ + +One important measure of a degree’s value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. WGU is a pioneer in reinventing higher education for the 21st century, and the quality of this program has been recognized by ACBSP.  + +COST & TIME + +Affordable Online Degree Programs +--------------------------------- + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +[Apply FREE](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Tuition Calculator + +Pay less by completing your program faster + +TOTAL COST: + +$ + +0 + +. + +5 + +1 + +1 + +. + +5 + +2 + +2 + +. + +5 + +3 + +3 + +. + +5 + +4 + +YEARS + +Cost Breakdown + +Tuition + +$4,805 + +E-Books & Resources Fee + ++ $200 + +* * * + +TOTAL (per 6-month term) + +\= $ + +6-month terms + +X + +* * * + +Total Cost + +\= $ + +### A College Degree Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half\* the national average. + +[Responsible Borrowing Initiative](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid/responsible-borrowing-initiative.html) + +Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits.  + +[Financial Aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html) + +Many scholarship opportunities are available. Find out what you might be eligible for. + +[Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) + +#### \*_WGU undergraduate students have approximately half the debt at graduation compared to the national average, according to the Institute for College Access and Success (2022)._ + +FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE +----------------- + +### You Control Where, When, and How Fast You Learn and Graduate + +Schedules are tight and often unpredictable for busy professionals. That’s why we offer a flexible, personalized approach to how education should be. No interruptions to your work and family obligations. No rigid class schedules. No barriers to earning your degree on your own terms. Just a solid, career-focused online MBA program that meshes seamlessly with your current lifestyle. + +[REQUEST MORE INFO](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +_"I was fortunate enough to finish my WGU degree program in six months because I was able to show what I knew and not have to sit in needless classes. I was able to showcase my strengths and still have plenty of time to work on my weaknesses, which really helped me finish my degree. I couldn't have done this anywhere else.”_ + +**—David Burks +MBA** + + + +CAREER OUTLOOK + +**An Industry-Aligned MBA Degree That Prepares You to Take the Lead** +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Goldman Sachs. Google. MGM. Microsoft. Apple. These giant organizations are changing the world, and they’re doing it with WGU MBA graduates.  Our alumni stand out from the competition and make real contributions to top organizations. + +An online Master of Business Administration degree from WGU could help elevate your career, too. Get an MBA online that prepares you to lead cross-functional teams with the agility to adapt to the ever-changing world of business. + +WGU’s online MBA degree is designed for business professionals who want to graduate with career-ready skills. Hone the management and strategy skills to take charge in finance, operations, marketing, HR, and technology. Become the business leader your organization needs. + +[MORE ABOUT CAREERS](https://www.wgu.edu/career-guide/business.html) + +### Return on Your Investment + +### Many WGU graduates may see an increase in income post-graduation + +[](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) + +_Average income increase in annual salary vs. pre-enrollment salary from all degrees. Source: [2024 Harris Poll](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) of 1,655 WGU graduates._ + +_Survey was sent to a representative sample of WGU graduates from all colleges. Respondents received at least one WGU degree since 2017._ + +6% + +_Employment of top executives is projected to [grow 6% through 2033](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/top-executives.htm)._ + +**—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics** + +### MBAs from WGU Are Leading Teams and Businesses in Diverse Industries + +Problem-solving leaders are required in every industry, and strategic thinking is necessary at every successful company. If you're ready to broaden your business knowledge and advance your career, WGU's MBA program online can prepare you to be an effective leader and produce successful results wherever you go. Your business management career starts here! +Our 5,300-plus MBA grads have great jobs and satisfying careers. + +#### Top Jobs + +* Owner +* President and CEO +* Vice president +* Executive director +* Chief strategic officer + +#### Top Industries + +* Private companies +* Healthcare organizations +* Nonprofit organizations +* Government +* Colleges and universities + +#### Top Employers + +* American Airlines +* Yahoo! +* Edward Jones +* Intermountain Healthcare +* Mayo Clinic + +### WGU Grads Hold Positions With Top Employers + +[Explore More](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/education-outcomes/new-career.html) + +ADMISSIONS & TRANSFERS + +MBA Admission Requirements +-------------------------- + +To be considered for this program, you must: + +* Submit all transcripts verifying receipt of your bachelor’s degree from a recognized, accredited institution. + + +NOTE: You do not need to take the GRE or GMAT to be admitted to this program. [Learn why we don't require these tests.](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/no-standardized-testing.html) + +[GENERAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/business-requirements.html) + +Transfer Credits + +------------------- + +WGU offers a generous transfer policy, but many graduate level degrees do not allow for transfer credits. Some graduate programs allow the transfer of individual courses or certifications and others do not. Please **speak to an Enrollment Counselor for the specifics of your desired program.** You will still need to send in your transcripts to validate your bachelor's degree—this can be done independently or with our free transcript service.  + +[TRANSFER INFORMATION](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers/transfer-to-wgu.html) + +Get Your Enrollment Checklist + +Download your step-by-step guide to enrollment. + +[VIEW CHECKLIST](https://www.wgu.edu/content/dam/western-governors/documents/admissions/checklist_general.pdf) + +Get Your Questions Answered + +Talk to an WGU Enrollment Counselor. + +[CONTACT AN ENROLLMENT COUNSELOR](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +FINISH FASTER + +### The One-Year MBA + +* * * + +WGU's competency-based model allows you to move through courses as quickly as you master the material. Whether you learn fast, study hard, or have past work experience, as soon as you pass an assessment, you can move on and potentially graduate faster. + +WGU's one-year\* MBA program prepares you with all the knowledge, skills, and experience you need. You’ll get the same respected degree even faster, and for less. Complete your Master's in Business Administration program in only 12 months for just $9,610. + +This online Master of Business Administration degree gives you the flexibility you need to earn your degree on your terms. Most students work full-time while completing their master's in business administration—something you and your employer will appreciate. No set login times or class meetings. Study early in the morning, late at night, or even on the road—you are in the driver's seat of your education. + +_\* Program can be completed in as little as 12 months. Pricing is based on 12-month completion of the program. Students that do not complete in 12 months and need longer to complete the program will need to pay for additional terms._ + +[Graduate in 12 Months](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/mba-masters-business-administration-program/one-year-mba.html) + +Frequently Asked Questions about MBA Programs + +1. General MBA FAQs + +2. Online MBA FAQs + + +### What is an MBA? + +MBA stands for Master’s of Business Administration. An MBA is a graduate-level business management degree that teaches you leadership skills for the modern business world. Those with an MBA often stand out among candidates for upper management positions. + +### Is it Masters or Master of Business Administration? + +Both terms are commonly used, but the technical correct usage is Master of Business Administration, or a Master's in Business Administration.  + +### What can you do with a Master in Business Administration? + +There are many job opportunities with an MBA degree. They include: + +* Chief executive officer +* Executive director +* Chief financial officer +* Marketing manager +* International business development +* Chief marketing officer +* Sales manager +* Operations manager +* Human resources manager + +### What is the purpose of an MBA degree? + +An MBA gives you additional skills and training that can help you progress in your career. You'll learn about strategy, communication, management, and leadership that will help you move into larger roles in an organization. An MBA trains you to become a business leader in many different kinds of industries. + +### What do you learn in an MBA program? + +In an MBA program you'll have courses in accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, leadership, management, and more.  + +### Is a Master's in Business Administration worth it? + +Yes! An MBA can help you boost your résumé and help you get higher pay, better job opportunities, and more. In fact, WGU MBA graduates earn an average of $16,200 more per year after graduation. + +### Why should you pursue an MBA? + +An MBA is a great option for those who want to progress into management or leadership roles in an organization. Whether you want to move to a new company or have upward mobility in your current organization, an MBA can help you be prepared to move up. + +### What is an MBA good for? + +An MBA teaches you leadership skills that can help you excel as an executive in a business setting. Earning an MBA can set you apart when you’re looking to advance into a management role within a corporation. The skills you learn in an MBA program may also help you start and manage your own business. + +### How long does it take to get an MBA degree? + +In general, it takes around two years to earn an MBA degree. That said, through a competency-based online MBA program like the one offered at WGU, students may be able to earn their degree more quickly, sometimes in 18 months or less. + +### How many years does it take to get an MBA degree? + +The number of years it takes to earn an MBA degree can vary depending on the university. + +* Traditional university: 2 years +* Competency-based MBA program: 1 to 1.5 years +* Part-time MBA program: around 3 years + +### Can you earn an MBA completely online? + +Yes. You can earn an MBA completely online. This unique model enables students to keep their current job while working toward their degree. Competency-based education models and on-demand classes, tests, and assignments make earning a degree online a valid option for busy working professionals or those with limited access to a brick and mortar university. + +### Does online MBA have any value? + +Yes. With the growing prevalence and availability of online MBA programs, curriculum and acceptance criteria have become more rigorous. As higher education has moved increasingly to online formats, more employers are respecting online MBAs and finding online MBA grads to possess the skills necessary to add value to their business.  + +### Is an online MBA respected? + +Yes. If you earn an MBA from an accredited and reputable university, it will likely be respected by employers. Many online MBA programs have gained enough of a reputation that employers now seek out graduates specifically from certain online programs and universities. + +### Which online MBA program is best? + +The [best online MBA programs](https://www.wgu.edu/online-business-degrees/business-management-bachelors-program/ranking.html) in terms of ROI include: + +* Excelsior College; 497% ROI +* Western Governors University; 267% ROI +* American Public University; 249% ROI +* Arizona State University—Skysong; 225% ROI +* Capella University; 171% ROI + +### Is an online MBA easy? + +No. An online MBA is not necessarily easy. While an online MBA may offer more flexibility and accessibility than a typical in-person program, online programs are still competitive and rigorous. 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"You do not need to take the GRE or GMAT to be admitted to this program." +- **Delivery mode** (`ceterms:deliveryType`): "The Master of Business Administration degree at WGU is 100% online"; "No set login times or class meetings" +- **Learning outcomes / competencies** (`ceterms:teaches`): Management; Operations; Communication; Data Analysis; Written Communication; Business Development +- **Courses** (`ceterms:hasPart`): Managing Organizations and Leading People; Managing Human Capital; Management Communication; Operations Management; Global Economics for Managers; Marketing; Accounting for Decision Makers; Ethical Leadership; Financial Management; Data-Driven Decision Making; MBA Capstone +- **Career outcomes / occupations** (`ceterms:occupationType`): "Owner; President and CEO; Vice president; Executive director; Chief strategic officer"; also "Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Marketing manager, Sales manager, Operations manager, Human resources manager" +- **Industries** (`ceterms:industryType`): "Private companies, Healthcare organizations, Nonprofit organizations, Government, Colleges and universities" +- **Accreditation** (`ceterms:accreditedBy`): "ACBSP" +- **Embedded credentials**: none stated +- **Outcome data** (`qdata:`): "average salary increase of $14,025"; "Employment of top executives is projected to grow 6% through 2033 — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics" + +--- + +## Master of Business Administration + +### MBA Degree + +**An Online MBA That Delivers Real-World Leadership Skills** + +Built with insight from industry leaders, WGU's MBA equips you with the strategies, skills, and confidence employers expect from leaders today. Every course is designed around the demands of business today—finance, operations, HR, marketing, and technology—so you graduate prepared to make an immediate impact. + +Recognized by _The Wall Street Journal_ as one of the top return-on-investment MBA programs, WGU helps you gain the cross-functional business expertise to stay agile, lead teams, and drive results in a changing marketplace. + +Graduates can finish within **12 months*** + +WGU lets you set a schedule so you can finish your MBA in just one year. You are in control of the schedule and timing for your online MBA program. + +*WGU Internal Data* + +Tuition per six-month term is **$4,805** + +See what your online MBA will cost at our university. Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. Finish faster, pay less! + +Average salary increase **$14,025*** + +Master of Business Administration graduates report an average salary increase of $14,025 after completing their WGU degree. + +*WGU Internal Data* + +--- + +## COURSES + +### MBA Courses + +Program consists of **11 courses** + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +This program is composed of the following business and management courses. You will typically complete them one at a time as you progress through your program, working with your Program Mentor each term to build your personalized degree plan. You'll work through each course as quickly as you can master the material. As soon as you're ready, you'll pass the assessment, complete the course, and move on. You can finish as many courses as you're able each term at no additional cost—making it possible to graduate faster, for less. + +One-year MBA students can complete all coursework in two WGU terms. Your Program Mentor will help you set a schedule that enables you to finish your program quickly. + +To ensure WGU graduates gain cutting-edge knowledge and skills sought by today's employers, our Master of Business Administration was developed with significant input from global business leaders who serve on our Business Program Council. + +#### Management + +**Managing Organizations and Leading People** + +This course covers principles of effective management and leadership that maximize organizational performance. The following topics are included: the role and functions of a manager, analysis of personal leadership styles, approaches to self-awareness and self-assessment, and application of foundational leadership and management skills. + +**Managing Human Capital** + +This course focuses on strategies and tools that managers use to maximize employee contribution and create organizational excellence. You will learn talent management strategies to motivate and develop employees as well as best practices to manage performance for added value. + +**Management Communication** + +This course prepares students for the communication challenges in organizations. Topics examined include theories and strategies of communication, persuasion, conflict management, and ethics that enhance communication to various audiences. + +**Operations Management** + +This course focuses on the strategic importance of operations management to overall performance. This course also emphasizes principles of supply chain management relevant to a variety of business operations ranging from manufacturing goods to retail services. You will examine the various planning, control, and decision-making tools and techniques of the operations function. + +#### Economics + +**Global Economics for Managers** + +This course examines how economic tools, techniques, and indicators can be used for solving organizational problems related to competitiveness, productivity, and growth. You will explore the management implications of a variety of economic concepts and effective strategies to make decisions within a global context. + +#### Marketing + +**Marketing** + +Marketing Fundamentals introduces students to principles of the marketing environment, social media, consumer behavior, marketing research, and market segmentation. Students will also explore marketing strategies that are related to products and services, distribution channels, promotions, sales, and pricing. + +#### Accounting + +**Accounting for Decision Makers** + +This course provides you with the accounting knowledge and skills to assess and manage a business. Topics include the accounting cycle, financial statements, taxes, and budgeting. This course will improve students' ability to understand reports and use accounting information to plan and make sound business decisions. + +#### Leadership + +**Ethical Leadership** + +This course examines the ethical issues and dilemmas managers face. This course provides a framework for analysis of management-related ethical issues and decision-making action required for satisfactory resolution of these issues. + +#### Finance + +**Financial Management** + +This course covers practical approaches to analysis and decision-making in the administration of corporate funds, including capital budgeting, working capital management, and cost of capital. Topics include financial planning, management of working capital, analysis of investment opportunities, sources of long-term financing, government regulations, and global influences. This course will improve students' ability to interpret financial statements and manage corporate finances. + +#### Strategy + +**Data-Driven Decision Making** + +This course presents critical problem-solving methodologies, including field research and data collection methods that enhance organizational performance. Topics include quantitative analysis, statistical and quality tools. You will improve your ability to use data to make informed decisions. + +#### Capstone + +**MBA Capstone** + +Welcome to the MBA Capstone course, the final course in your degree program. This course coalesces the competencies developed over the course of your degree program and looks ahead to your contributions to your professional field. You will demonstrate and hone your management skills by launching a new business from the ground up as an entrepreneur in a business simulation. You will also develop your personal brand and strategically plan your professional career path. + +### Skills For Your Résumé + +As part of this program, you will develop a range of valuable skills that employers are looking for. + +- **Management:** Identified and determined the resources required to effectively support an organization or process, ensuring optimal functionality and efficiency. +- **Operations:** Developed comprehensive systems with standard operating procedures (SOPs) for distinct parts of a business, promoting consistency, compliance, and operational excellence. +- **Communication:** Leveraged appropriate communication techniques to effectively persuade and guide outcomes. +- **Data Analysis:** Applied analytical and logical reasoning skills to uncover valuable information crucial for decision-making processes. +- **Written Communication:** Addressed internal and external stakeholders using the most suitable written communication strategy for each audience, fostering effective communication and engagement. +- **Business Development:** Developed strategic plans for acquiring new business and expanding existing business in collaboration with the business development team. + +--- + +## WGU vs. Traditional Universities + +| Aspect | Traditional Universities | Western Governors University | +|--------|-------------------------|------------------------------| +| **TUITION STRUCTURE** | Per credit hour | Flat rate per 6-month term | +| **SUPPORT** | Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors | Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one | +| **EXAMS** | Scheduled time | Whenever you feel ready | +| **SCHEDULE** | Professor led lectures at a certain time and place | Courses available anytime, from anywhere | +| **TIME TO FINISH** | Approximately 2 years, minimal acceleration options | As quickly as you can master the material, can finish programs in 1 year | + +--- + +## COST & TIME + +### Affordable Online Degree Programs + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +#### Cost Breakdown + +- **Tuition:** $4,805 +- **E-Books & Resources Fee:** + $200 +- **TOTAL (per 6-month term):** = $5,005 + +### A College Degree Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half the national average. + +- **Responsible Borrowing Initiative** + +Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits. + +- **Financial Aid** + +Many scholarship opportunities are available. Find out what you might be eligible for. + +- **Scholarships** + +--- + +## FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE + +### You Control Where, When, and How Fast You Learn and Graduate + +Schedules are tight and often unpredictable for busy professionals. That's why we offer a flexible, personalized approach to how education should be. No interruptions to your work and family obligations. No rigid class schedules. No barriers to earning your degree on your own terms. Just a solid, career-focused online MBA program that meshes seamlessly with your current lifestyle. + +--- + +## CAREER OUTLOOK + +### An Industry-Aligned MBA Degree That Prepares You to Take the Lead + +Goldman Sachs. Google. MGM. Microsoft. Apple. These giant organizations are changing the world, and they're doing it with WGU MBA graduates. Our alumni stand out from the competition and make real contributions to top organizations. + +An online Master of Business Administration degree from WGU could help elevate your career, too. Get an MBA online that prepares you to lead cross-functional teams with the agility to adapt to the ever-changing world of business. + +WGU's online MBA degree is designed for business professionals who want to graduate with career-ready skills. Hone the management and strategy skills to take charge in finance, operations, marketing, HR, and technology. Become the business leader your organization needs. + +### Return on Your Investment + +Many WGU graduates may see an increase in income post-graduation + +- **6%** - Employment of top executives is projected to grow 6% through 2033. + - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics + +### MBAs from WGU Are Leading Teams and Businesses in Diverse Industries + +Problem-solving leaders are required in every industry, and strategic thinking is necessary at every successful company. If you're ready to broaden your business knowledge and advance your career, WGU's MBA program online can prepare you to be an effective leader and produce successful results wherever you go. Your business management career starts here! Our 5,300-plus MBA grads have great jobs and satisfying careers. + +#### Top Jobs +- Owner +- President and CEO +- Vice president +- Executive director +- Chief strategic officer + +#### Top Industries +- Private companies +- Healthcare organizations +- Nonprofit organizations +- Government +- Colleges and universities + +#### Top Employers +- American Airlines +- Yahoo! +- Edward Jones +- Intermountain Healthcare +- Mayo Clinic + +--- + +## ADMISSIONS & TRANSFERS + +### MBA Admission Requirements + +To be considered for this program, you must: + +- Submit all transcripts verifying receipt of your bachelor's degree from a recognized, accredited institution. + +NOTE: You do not need to take the GRE or GMAT to be admitted to this program. + +### Transfer Credits + +WGU offers a generous transfer policy, but many graduate level degrees do not allow for transfer credits. Some graduate programs allow the transfer of individual courses or certifications and others do not. Please **speak to an Enrollment Counselor for the specifics of your desired program.** You will still need to send in your transcripts to validate your bachelor's degree—this can be done independently or with our free transcript service. + +--- + +## FINISH FASTER + +### The One-Year MBA + +WGU's competency-based model allows you to move through courses as quickly as you master the material. Whether you learn fast, study hard, or have past work experience, as soon as you pass an assessment, you can move on and potentially graduate faster. + +WGU's one-year* MBA program prepares you with all the knowledge, skills, and experience you need. You'll get the same respected degree even faster, and for less. Complete your Master's in Business Administration program in only 12 months for just $9,610. + +This online Master of Business Administration degree gives you the flexibility you need to earn your degree on your terms. Most students work full-time while completing their master's in business administration—something you and your employer will appreciate. No set login times or class meetings. Study early in the morning, late at night, or even on the road—you are in the driver's seat of your education. + +*Program can be completed in as little as 12 months. Pricing is based on 12-month completion of the program. Students that do not complete in 12 months and need longer to complete the program will need to pay for additional terms.* + +--- + +## Frequently Asked Questions about MBA Programs + +### What is an MBA? + +MBA stands for Master's of Business Administration. An MBA is a graduate-level business management degree that teaches you leadership skills for the modern business world. Those with an MBA often stand out among candidates for upper management positions. + +### Is it Masters or Master of Business Administration? + +Both terms are commonly used, but the technical correct usage is Master of Business Administration, or a Master's in Business Administration. + +### What can you do with a Master in Business Administration? + +There are many job opportunities with an MBA degree. They include: + +- Chief executive officer +- Executive director +- Chief financial officer +- Marketing manager +- International business development +- Chief marketing officer +- Sales manager +- Operations manager +- Human resources manager + +### What is the purpose of an MBA degree? + +An MBA gives you additional skills and training that can help you progress in your career. You'll learn about strategy, communication, management, and leadership that will help you move into larger roles in an organization. An MBA trains you to become a business leader in many different kinds of industries. + +### What do you learn in an MBA program? + +In an MBA program you'll have courses in accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, leadership, management, and more. + +### Is a Master's in Business Administration worth it? + +Yes! An MBA can help you boost your résumé and help you get higher pay, better job opportunities, and more. In fact, WGU MBA graduates earn an average of $16,200 more per year after graduation. + +### Why should you pursue an MBA? + +An MBA is a great option for those who want to progress into management or leadership roles in an organization. Whether you want to move to a new company or have upward mobility in your current organization, an MBA can help you be prepared to move up. + +### What is an MBA good for? + +An MBA teaches you leadership skills that can help you excel as an executive in a business setting. Earning an MBA can set you apart when you're looking to advance into a management role within a corporation. The skills you learn in an MBA program may also help you start and manage your own business. + +### How long does it take to get an MBA degree? + +In general, it takes around two years to earn an MBA degree. That said, through a competency-based online MBA program like the one offered at WGU, students may be able to earn their degree more quickly, sometimes in 18 months or less. + +### How many years does it take to get an MBA degree? + +The number of years it takes to earn an MBA degree can vary depending on the university. + +- Traditional university: 2 years +- Competency-based MBA program: 1 to 1.5 years +- Part-time MBA program: around 3 years + +### Can you earn an MBA completely online? + +Yes. You can earn an MBA completely online. This unique model enables students to keep their current job while working toward their degree. Competency-based education models and on-demand classes, tests, and assignments make earning a degree online a valid option for busy working professionals or those with limited access to a brick and mortar university. + +### Does online MBA have any value? + +Yes. With the growing prevalence and availability of online MBA programs, curriculum and acceptance criteria have become more rigorous. As higher education has moved increasingly to online formats, more employers are respecting online MBAs and finding online MBA grads to possess the skills necessary to add value to their business. + +### Is an online MBA respected? + +Yes. If you earn an MBA from an accredited and reputable university, it will likely be respected by employers. 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At the end of your program, you will complete a capstone project that represents the culmination of all your hard work—a project that allows you to take what you’ve learned and apply it to a real-world situation, proposing a solution to an actual issue you face in your place of business.

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After graduation, WGU MBA master's degree graduates report earning $14,025 more per year*. Are you ready to make more money?

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Competency-based education means you can move as quickly through your degree as you can master the material. You don't have to log in to classes at a certain time—you are truly in the driver's seat of your education.
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The Master of Business Administration degree at WGU is 100% online, which means it works wherever you are. You can do your coursework at night after working at your full-time job, on weekends, while you're traveling the world or on vacation—it's entirely up to you.
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By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree.

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Schedules are tight and often unpredictable for busy professionals. That’s why we offer a flexible, personalized approach to how education should be. No interruptions to your work and family obligations. No rigid class schedules. No barriers to earning your degree on your own terms. Just a solid, career-focused online MBA program that meshes seamlessly with your current lifestyle.

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"I was fortunate enough to finish my WGU degree program in six months because I was able to show what I knew and not have to sit in needless classes. I was able to showcase my strengths and still have plenty of time to work on my weaknesses, which really helped me finish my degree. I couldn't have done this anywhere else.”

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An Industry-Aligned MBA Degree That Prepares You to Take the Lead

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Goldman Sachs. Google. MGM. Microsoft. Apple. These giant organizations are changing the world, and they’re doing it with WGU MBA graduates.  Our alumni stand out from the competition and make real contributions to top organizations.

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An online Master of Business Administration degree from WGU could help elevate your career, too. Get an MBA online that prepares you to lead cross-functional teams with the agility to adapt to the ever-changing world of business.

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WGU’s online MBA degree is designed for business professionals who want to graduate with career-ready skills. Hone the management and strategy skills to take charge in finance, operations, marketing, HR, and technology. Become the business leader your organization needs.

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Problem-solving leaders are required in every industry, and strategic thinking is necessary at every successful company. If you're ready to broaden your business knowledge and advance your career, WGU's MBA program online can prepare you to be an effective leader and produce successful results wherever you go. Your business management career starts here!
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WGU's one-year* MBA program prepares you with all the knowledge, skills, and experience you need. You’ll get the same respected degree even faster, and for less. Complete your Master's in Business Administration program in only 12 months for just $9,610.

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This online Master of Business Administration degree gives you the flexibility you need to earn your degree on your terms. Most students work full-time while completing their master's in business administration—something you and your employer will appreciate. No set login times or class meetings. Study early in the morning, late at night, or even on the road—you are in the driver's seat of your education.

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MBA stands for Master’s of Business Administration. An MBA is a graduate-level business management degree that teaches you leadership skills for the modern business world. Those with an MBA often stand out among candidates for upper management positions.

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Yes! An MBA can help you boost your résumé and help you get higher pay, better job opportunities, and more. In fact, WGU MBA graduates earn an average of $16,200 more per year after graduation.

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And your experience as a nurse is what will make you a great nurse educator. A BSN to MSN nursing education program is designed to help you thrive as a nurse educator—giving you crucial skills that will prepare you to train the next generation of nurses, impact patient care, and improve health systems in your community. WGU’s online, CCNE-accredited BSN to MSN program will prepare you to teach a new generation of nurses, influence patient outcomes, and change the future of healthcare. + +This BSN to MSN program lets you utilize your knowledge and experience and gives you specific skills you need to take your passion and teach it to others. As a leader you will develop and implement life-saving techniques that will set important standards for the nurses you train. This online nursing education degree program also includes clinical practice experiences that support the student in demonstrating advanced nursing practice competence and curriculum development. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to earn the NAHQ (National Association for Healthcare Quality) HQ Principles certificate along with your degree, helping you to boost your résumé before you even graduate. + +Need to earn your BSN first? No problem! [Check out the RN-to-MSN version of this program.](https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/nursing-education-rn-to-msn-masters-program.html) + +62% of graduates finish within  + +24 Months\* + +WGU lets you move more quickly through material you already know and advance as soon as you're ready. The result: You may finish faster. + +_\*WGU Internal Data_ + +[Flexible Schedule](#schedule) + +Tuition per six-month term is + +$5,035 + +Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of their business management degree. Finish faster, pay less! + +[Cost & Time](#cost) + +Transfer credit is accepted + +47% + +of your coursework (up to 17 credits) taken at the graduate (master's) level at a nationally or institutionally accredited school can be transferred to this WGU program. + +[Admissions](#admissions) + +_\*Courses must have been completed within the past five years with an earned grade of "B" or higher._ + +Ready to Start Your WGU Journey? + +**Next Start Date: {{startdate}}** + +Start Dates the 1st of Every Month + +[Apply Today](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +COURSES + +Nursing Education Courses +------------------------- + +Program consists of 15 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. +  + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/bsn-to-msn-nursing-education-masters-program/program-guide.html) + +The WGU MSN – Education curriculum is evidence-based. Competencies for this specialty were derived from the National League for Nursing Nurse Educator standards and the Master’s Essentials for Professional Nursing practice. + +In the MSN core of this online nursing program, you will develop knowledge related to complexities of healthcare, access, quality, and costs for diverse populations. The nurse educator specialization will cover topics like curriculum development, learning styles, assessment, and more. + +This program consists of the following courses, which you will typically complete one at a time as you make your way through your program, working with your Program Mentor each term to build your personalized Degree Plan. You’ll work through each course as quickly as you can study and learn the material. As soon as you’re ready, you can pass the assessment, complete the course, and move on. This means you can finish as many courses as you're able in a term at no additional cost. + +[DOWNLOAD PROGRAM DETAILS](https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/bsn-to-msn-nursing-education-masters-program/program-guide.html) + +Nursing Education Specialty + +Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators in Diverse Environments + +Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators in Diverse Environments examines the multidimensional roles of a contemporary academic nurse educator. This course explores the roles and responsibilities of the nurse educator as a teacher, leader, change agent, and curriculum innovator. Students will also examine the importance of personal and professional development by developing strategies that promote academic integrity, cultural sensitivity, social justice, and ethical/legal values in diverse environments. The course emphasizes the responsibility of nurse educators to utilize communication, collaboration, and leadership in mitigating challenges in academic nursing education. + +Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning + +Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning explores how the nurse educator will incorporate authentic experiences into the creation of course plans that facilitate scholarly inquiry, collaboration, and knowledge acquisition in varied educational environments. Emphasis is placed on innovative, transformational, and experiential teaching and learning strategies to facilitate student development of professional, context-based nursing principles, knowledge, skills, and behavior. Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators in Diverse Environments is a prerequisite to this course. + +Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education + +Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education analyzes the concepts of creating curriculum based on national nursing accreditation standards and instructional design best practices. Nurse educator students will create course content that supports learning in diverse, real-world environments where nurse educators facilitate learning. Instructional design strategies for delivering course content will reflect the mission of academic institution programs, contemporary trends in nursing education, and the needs of key stakeholders in nursing education and practice. Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning is a prerequisite to this course. + +Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning + +Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning addresses the academic nurse educator's role in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of student achievement outcomes in nursing education programs. This course requires students to integrate best practices from nursing theory and theories of learning to assess student learning in diverse educational settings. Topics include validity, reliability, and practicality of assessments, interpreting item difficulty and discrimination test results, and analyzing student achievement and learning outcomes data. This course has no prerequisites. + +Emerging Trends and Challenges in 21st Century Nursing Education + +Emerging Trends and Challenges in 21st Century Nursing Education analyzes the emerging trends, technologies, and challenges that academic nurse educators encounter when facilitating learning in diverse healthcare settings. Students will focus on the necessity of interprofessional collaboration and the barriers and facilitators to overcoming the challenges associated with teaching and learning in nursing. Topics include the impact of emerging technology, challenges in nursing practice, and the role of the academic nurse educator as a scholar and a nursing education policy advocate. This course has no prerequisites. + +Nursing Education Field Experience + +The Nursing Education Field Experience provides the academic nurse educator student an opportunity to work collaboratively with academic mentors and interprofessional stakeholders to analyze the need-gap for a curriculum change, innovation, or improvement. Based on the identified need-gap, the graduate student will design and develop a course that reflects evidence-based instructional design and assessment principles and practices. This course prepares students for the role of an Academic Nurse Educator, as an agent for change and quality improvement in nursing education. + +Nursing Education Capstone + +The Nursing Education Capstone course provides the Nurse Educator student an opportunity to apply previous course work towards the completion of an evidence-based curriculum proposal project. During this course students will build on previous work during their Nursing Education Field Experience course by planning the implementation and evaluation phases of their proposed curriculum change. The capstone project represents a synthesis of competencies across the Master of Science in Nursing—Nursing Education degree program, which prepares them to lead, manage, and transform nursing education in diverse and complex settings. This course is eligible for an in-progress grade. Please see the grading scale policy for more information. + +MSN Core + +Professional Presence and Influence + +Professional Presence and Influence is a masters-level course designed to guide students towards an enhanced state of presence, where therapeutic relationships are built between nurse and patient. Students will learn techniques for self-care practices that result in enhanced mental and physical wellbeing and that ensure ethically-generated patient care. Presence is an intrapersonal and interpersonal quality that allows the nurse to relate to others and to be aware of the world around them. The characteristics of presence, which include holism, intimacy, sensitivity and adaptability, create a heightened sense of awareness that fosters therapeutic relationships between the nurse and patient. Developing a mindful, authentic presence is central to health and spiritual practices in several cultures and a major element of leadership. Students will intentionally develop a focused mindfulness practice that will influence patient outcomes and lead to conditions that create joy in the workplace. + +Essentials of Advanced Nursing Roles and Interprofessional Practice + +Essentials of Advanced Nursing Roles and Interprofessional Practice explores essential characteristics of the advanced professional nurse in the role of leader, educator, practitioner, or informatics specialist. In this course, students will apply evidence-based strategies to facilitate interprofessional collaboration on teams. Students will explore the role of nurses in advocating for change at the bedside, as well as leading teams to advocate for health policy reform. Students will gather and analyze data to identify patients and populations at risk and recommend policy change to improve health outcomes in the community. + +Quality Outcomes in a Culture of Value-Based Nursing Care + +Quality Outcomes in a Culture of Value-Based Nursing Care incorporates current standards of quality and safety within the context of value-based care. In a value-based healthcare system, the benefits are derived from measuring health outcomes against the cost of delivering the outcomes. These benefits are then extended to patients, providers, payers, suppliers, and society as a whole. This course introduces new healthcare delivery models, which stress a team-oriented approach to patient care and sharing of patient data so that care is coordinated, and outcomes can be measured easily. Emphasis is placed on performance and quality improvement methods that underlie value-based nursing care. The nurse in advanced practice today must exemplify the standards of quality and safety and be prepared to lead the delivery of value-based patient-centered care. + +Advanced Pathopharmacological Foundations + +Advanced Pathopharmacological Foundations provides advanced practice nurses foundational knowledge in the many pathologies encountered in practice today. Advancing from the cellular to the body system level, this course examines the pathologies of common conditions seen in healthcare today. Consideration is also given to the human affective response to alterations in health. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Advanced Health Assessment for Patients and Populations + +Advanced Health Assessment of Patients and Populations builds on prior physical health assessment knowledge and skills acquired during undergraduate studies by focusing on the advanced assessment of biopsychosocial and sociocultural contexts in patients and populations across the life span. This course emphasizes the use of a comprehensive health promotion, disease prevention, and health restoration model to address health concerns in patients and communities. Students will acquire advanced assessment knowledge and skills for clinical interviewing, focused history taking, critical diagnostic reasoning, and clinical decision-making using a problem-focused framework that integrates authentic experiences with practical knowledge of health patterns in patients and communities. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Informatics for Transforming Nursing Care + +Informatics for Transforming Nursing Care integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Students will acquire knowledge and skills to apply informatics concepts, communications, and data that are critical to facilitating interprofessional data-driven decision-making. It is designed to build competence in the use of patient- and population-based applications that inform and support the transformation of nursing care delivery toward a future of value-based quality nursing care that improves health outcomes. This course aligns theoretical concepts with practical applications of informatics and is consistent with the functional areas and responsibilities of informatics nurses as defined by the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards for nursing informatics. + +Leadership and Management in Complex Healthcare Systems + +Leadership and Management in Complex Healthcare Systems prepares graduate nurses to be thoughtful strategists and informed decision-makers who serve as strong leaders in high-performing healthcare systems. Students develop competencies for managing diverse teams in complex systems, monitoring and measuring organizational performance, allocating financial and human resources, and leading change towards a transformed healthcare system. Additionally, students acquire the knowledge and skills to become full partners with other healthcare professionals by demonstrating nurse contributions toward high-quality care to patients and populations, while working collaboratively with interprofessional teams. There are no prerequisites for this course. + +Advancing Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing Practice + +Advancing Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing Practice introduces students to the dynamic union of healthcare innovation and evidence. Core competencies and behaviors required to be a nurse innovator are discussed. Strategies for measuring innovation at various system levels are presented, as well as techniques for synthesizing and disseminating evidence to advance innovation in healthcare. The skills needed to appraise the quality of diverse sources of evidence are presented within the framework of evidence-based practice. This course focuses on identifying new and emerging sources of evidence that can inform, translate, and scale the complexity of leading innovation in healthcare organizations. Students will experience building communities of practice for collaboratively developing innovative practices and policies designed to improve the health of populations and enhance the patient experience of care. + +15 Courses + +Program consists of 15 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +[Program Guide](https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/bsn-to-msn-nursing-education-masters-program/program-guide.html) + +Field Experiences + +Special requirements for this program + +While most of your coursework will be completed online, your nursing program includes some requirements—including field experiences—that must be completed in a facility near you.  + +[Request Info](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +**Skills For Your Résumé** + +As part of this program, you will develop a range of valuable skills that employers are looking for.  + +* **Inquiry:** Evaluated the incorporation of evidence-based practice in current nursing activities, ensuring alignment with the latest research and best practices. +* **Advocacy:** Advocated for policies aimed at enhancing public health and advancing the nursing profession, contributing to positive systemic changes. +* **Adaptability:** Provided essential recommendations for improvements in value-based care, aiming to enhance overall patient outcomes and healthcare quality. + +* **Curriculum Development:** Implemented diverse instructional strategies to support and expand learning, ensuring a well-rounded and effective educational experience. +* **Instructional and Curriculum Design:** Developed methods for assessing both learning and performance, contributing to ongoing improvement and skill development. +* **Leadership:** Cultivated an inclusive and collaborative team environment that valued the input of all members, fostering diversity and teamwork for enhanced productivity and creativity. + +_“The enrollment process was seamless. I talked to a gentleman on the phone, and he told me what I would need. I sent my transcripts in. Within three days they were evaluated. It was a really good process.”_ + +**—Robin Hill +M.S. Nursing – Education** + +WGU vs. Traditional Universities +Compare the Difference +--------------------------------------------------------- + +Traditional Universities + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 2 years, minimal acceleration options + +As quickly as you can master the material, can finish programs in 1 year + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Traditional Universities + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Per credit hour + +TUITION STRUCTURE + +Flat rate per 6-month term + +SUPPORT + +Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors + +SUPPORT + +Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one + +EXAMS + +Scheduled time + +EXAMS + +Whenever you feel ready + +SCHEDULE + +Professor led lectures at a certain time and place + +SCHEDULE + +Courses available anytime, from anywhere + +TIME TO FINISH + +Approximately 2 years, minimal acceleration options + +TIME TO FINISH + +As quickly as you can master the material, can finish programs in 1 year + +[Apply Now](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Why WGU? + +Affordability + +WGU tuition is charged per six-month term, not per credit. That means if you want to move faster through this online nursing education program, you'll pay less. + +[PAYING FOR SCHOOL](#cost) + +On Your Schedule + +You can continue working at your full-time job or maintaining your responsibilities while pursing your BSN to MSN degree. You don't have to log-in to classes and there aren't due dates. You are in charge of your degree. + +[A FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE](#schedule) + +Alumni Network + +When you enroll in the nursing education program at WGU, you join an impressive network of healthcare professionals. + +[CAREER OUTLOOK](#career) + +Accredited, + +Respected, + +Recognized™ + +One important measure of a degree’s value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. WGU is a pioneer in reinventing higher education for the 21st century, and our quality has been recognized. + +The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master's degree program in nursing, and post-graduate APRN certificate program at WGU are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education ([http://www.ccneaccreditation.org](http://www.ccneaccreditation.org/)). + +TRANSFER CREDIT + +Transfer Credits Accepted, No Work Requirement +---------------------------------------------- + +* * * + +Now's the time to advance your healthcare career with a master's degree: + +* Transfer up to 17 credits (47%) of your MSN courses taken at the graduate (master's) level at an accredited institution to this WGU degree program. Courses must have been completed at an accredited MSN program within the past five years with an earned grade of "B" or higher. +* There is no RN work requirement. This means you don't need to be currently working as an RN in order to be eligible for admission into our MSN programs. + +[SEE MORE ABOUT TRANSFER GUIDELINES](https://partners.wgu.edu/master-of-science-in-nursing-education-bsn-to-msn) + +_**Safety Notice**_ + +_WGU and the Leavitt School of Health are committed to the health, safety, and well-being of all patients, community members, and key stakeholders that interact with WGU students at various clinical/host sites. Interactions might include direct patient interaction, observation experiences, laboratory experiences, project development, or conducting research.  Standard compliance verification for students in applicable LSH programs is required to protect the public, meet LSH program expectations, reasonably assure compliance with state regulatory board requirements, meet WGU’s contractual and legal obligations with clinical partners, and support WGU’s mission to prepare students who will be qualified to enter their desired field. Compliance items may include, but are not limited to, background checks, immunizations, and drug screens as needed._ + +COST & TIME + +An Affordable Nursing Education Degree +-------------------------------------- + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +[Apply FREE](https://apply.wgu.edu/register) + +Tuition Calculator + +Pay less by completing your program faster + +TOTAL COST: + +$ + +0 + +. + +5 + +1 + +1 + +. + +5 + +2 + +2 + +. + +5 + +3 + +3 + +. + +5 + +4 + +YEARS + +Cost Breakdown + +Tuition + +$5,035 + +E-Books and Resources Fee + ++ $200 + +* * * + +TOTAL (per 6-month term) + +\= $ + +6-month terms + +X + +* * * + +Total Cost + +\= $ + +### A Nursing Master's Degree Is Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half\* the national average. + +[Responsible Borrowing Initiative](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid/responsible-borrowing-initiative.html) + +Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits.  + +[Financial Aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html) + +Many scholarship opportunities are available. Find out what you might be eligible for. + +[Scholarships](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/scholarships.html) + +#### \*_WGU undergraduate students have approximately half the debt at graduation compared to the national average, according to the Institute for College Access and Success (2022)._ + +FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE + +Designed to be Different: An MSN Program Built for a Busy Nurse’s Schedule +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Competency-based education puts working nurses in the driver’s seat of their education. As a busy nurse, you need a nursing degree program that's more than simply online—you need an online nursing program that truly reflects the realities of your work life and experience. + +At WGU, your progress is driven by your ability to prove what you’ve learned. How—and how quickly—are largely up to you. Once you’ve mastered the defined competencies (knowledge and skills), you prove what you know through tests, papers, projects, or other assessments. Demonstrating mastery is how you pass a course, so learning what it takes to be outstanding in your career is at the heart of WGU’s MSN – Education curriculum. + +Other universities' online M.S. programs may give you the convenience of distance learning; WGU's competency-based online programs take that flexibility further—many steps further! + +[REQUEST MORE INFO](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +_"Because of my experience and my master’s, I know how to build this program from the ground up. I’m excited, and I never would've had such an opportunity without this degree. I wouldn't have even considered it—or attempted it.”_ + +**—Kristine Perry +M.S. Nursing – Education** + + + +CAREER OUTLOOK + +Impart Excellence—Train Caregivers in Diverse Settings +------------------------------------------------------ + +Once you have earned a [CCNE-accredited](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/learning/accreditation.html) M.S. Nursing – Education degree, you will have the knowledge and skills to be an outstanding nurse educator. You'll be in demand, because you'll be prepared to translate your extensive nursing knowledge into learning opportunities for other nurses. + +BSN to MSN prepared nurse educators teach and train nurses, nursing students, school children, community groups, workers, patients, and consumers. A BSN to MSN can prepare you to make a difference in a wide variety of settings, including: + +* Hospitals. +* Community agencies. +* Schools. +* Industry and businesses. +* Nursing programs. + +[MORE ABOUT CAREERS](https://www.wgu.edu/career-guide/healthcare.html) + +### Return on Your Investment + +### Many WGU graduates may see an increase in income post-graduation + +[](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) + +_Average income increase in annual salary vs. pre-enrollment salary from all degrees. Source: [2024 Harris Poll](https://www.wgu.edu/about/annual-report.html) of 1,655 WGU graduates._ + +_Survey was sent to a representative sample of WGU graduates from all colleges. Respondents received at least one WGU degree since 2017._ + +$84K + +_Nursing instructors at colleges, universities, or professional schools make over $84,000 on average, according to recent statistics._ + +**—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics** + +### Real Results for Your Career: An MSN – Education Degree Prepares You to Be a Nurse Educator + +Given the growing nurse educator shortage, earning your MSN with a focus in nursing education is both a rewarding decision and a solid career move. Once you master subjects like curriculum development, instruction and evaluation, and current technology in nursing education, your role in nursing can take on a whole new dimension. Our 3,000-plus M.S. Nursing – Education alumni have great jobs and satisfying careers: + +Job Titles + +* Nurse educator +* Nursing faculty +* Program director +* Academic clinical nurse educator + +Diverse Industries + +* Hospitals and healthcare clinics +* Colleges and universities +* Healthcare networks +* Law enforcement and corrections +* Hospice providers + +Major Employers + +* Healthcare Corp. of America +* Kaiser-Permanente +* Purdue University +* University of Utah +* Hospice Care of California + +### WGU Grads Hold Positions With Top Employers + +Hospitals and clinics around the country know the benefit of a degree from WGU, so your healthcare degree is valuable. + +[More About Career Growth](https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/outcomes/career-growth.html) + +ADMISSIONS + +Admission Requirements Unique to This Nursing Degree +---------------------------------------------------- + +To be considered for this master's in nursing education program, you must: + +* Possess a bachelor of science in nursing degree (BSN).  +* Possess an active, unencumbered RN license (though you are not required to be working as an RN at the time of enrollment): + +1\. In your state of residence, or +2\. In your state of employment. + +Prior to your clinical placement, you must submit to a criminal background check through DISA Healthcare Technology and provide proof of current immunizations. Additional fees apply. + +**NOTE: RN licensure in your state of residence or employment is required to successfully complete clinical experiences. You must be licensed in the state in which you will complete the project or clinical experience. Compact licenses must be endorsed by your state of residence. For more [information about compact licenses](https://www.ncsbn.org/compacts.page).** + +[GENERAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/nursing-health-requirements.html) + +Get Your Enrollment Checklist + +Download your step-by-step guide to enrollment. + +[VIEW CHECKLIST](https://www.wgu.edu/content/dam/western-governors/documents/admissions/checklist_general.pdf) + +Get Your Questions Answered + +Talk to an WGU Enrollment Counselor. + +[CONTACT AN ENROLLMENT COUNSELOR](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/get-info.html) + +Transfer Credits + +------------------- + +WGU offers a generous transfer policy, but many graduate level degrees do not allow for transfer credits. Some graduate programs allow the transfer of individual courses or certifications and others do not. Please **speak to an Enrollment Counselor for the specifics of your desired program.** You will still need to send in your transcripts to validate your bachelor's degree—this can be done independently or with our free transcript service.  + +[TRANSFER INFORMATION](https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers/transfer-to-wgu.html) + +More About the BSN-to-MSN Nursing Education Program + +1. General Program Questions + +2. Financial Aid Questions + + +What is the deadline for transcript submission? +----------------------------------------------- + +Transcripts must be received by the 1st of the month before your intended start date. WGU requires that ALL official transcripts of previous academic work completed at other colleges and universities be submitted for evaluation. + +Can a graduate of this program get into a nurse practitioner certificate or other post-graduate nursing program? +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Admissions requirements vary widely from program to program and from school to school. Nurse practitioner programs—including Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), and post-MSN NP certificate programs—can be among the most competitive. One factor commonly considered for enrollment in post-graduate nursing programs is grade-point average (GPA) from previous college work. The nature of WGU’s competency-based model means WGU graduates do not have a GPA when they earn their degree. WGU will work with you to help other institutions understand our model. + +However, other factors beyond GPA are considered by many programs across the country. WGU provides opportunities for students to students to demonstrate excellence beyond a GPA, including participation in nationally recognized honors programs, real-world projects that you complete as part of your program that you can showcase in your post-graduate applications, and letters of recommendation from WGU faculty or leadership. + +The WGU non-NP MSN courses do not satisfy the requirement for three separate courses in Physical Assessment, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology.  These are often referred to as the “3 Ps” and are required for national certification and licensure as a nurse practitioner. + +You will need to work closely with the nurse practitioner program, national certification organization and licensing agency to be sure you have completed all requirements before certification and licensure. + +**For any aspiring graduate student, it is important to maximize your own qualities as well as do the research to understand the schools that offer the programs you seek to join.** + +You can start your research by reviewing post-graduate programs that have admitted WGU alumni in the past. Look on LinkedIn for [WGU nursing alumni who have gone on to become nurse practitioners](https://www.linkedin.com/school/14084/alumni/?keywords=nurse%20practitioner), and check their profiles to see which schools they attended after graduating from WGU. Contact the school to ask whether they enroll students from competency-based programs like WGU’s. And talk to your WGU Enrollment Counselor. WGU can provide alumni with a letter they can share with graduate schools, explaining our competency-based model. This letter has helped WGU alumni be accepted into a variety of graduate programs in a number of fields and disciplines. + +How long does it take to go from BSN to MSN? +-------------------------------------------- + +It depends on the type of program you choose for your MSN. Traditional programs typically take 2 years, but you may be able to find a competency-based program like WGU that allows you to finish faster. + +How much does a BSN to MSN cost? +-------------------------------- + +Typical BSN to MSN programs can cost upwards of $25,000. It's important to do your research when looking for an BSN to MSN program to find one that is accredited but also affordable. For example, WGU's BSN to MSN program costs $5,035 per six-month term. And if you finish faster at WGU, you pay less. + +Is it better to get a BSN or MSN? +--------------------------------- + +Depending on what you want to do with your career, an MSN can be extremely helpful. While nurses don't technically need a BSN or MSN, many hospitals are wanting BSN trained nurses to help their hospital reach magnet status. And if you are wanting to pursue other career options, such as nurse education, nurse management, becoming a nurse practitioner, etc. you will absolutely need an MSN. + +Does WGU offer financial aid? +----------------------------- + +WGU is approved to offer [federal student aid](https://www.wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/financial-aid.html). You will need to apply using the FAFSA, which is used to determine your eligibility for aid. WGU’s FAFSA school code is 033394. + +Are there scholarships available? +--------------------------------- + +Scholarships are available for new WGU students and returning graduates. [This video shows more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNZ8dCtZQsc) about scholarship opportunities and how they can help you pay for school. 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Nursing – Education (BSN to MSN) + +**Source URL:** https://www.wgu.edu/online-nursing-health-degrees/bsn-to-msn-nursing-education-masters-program.html +**Captured:** 2026-07-01 +**Raw HTML:** `ms-nursing-education.html` (421,483 bytes) + +--- + +## CTDL-relevant content on this page + +- **Program name** (`ceterms:name`): "Nursing Education (BSN to MSN)" — Master of Science +- **Description** (`ceterms:description`): "A BSN to MSN nursing education program is designed to help you thrive as a nurse educator—giving you crucial skills that will prepare you to train the next generation of nurses, impact patient care, and improve health systems in your community." +- **Credential type** (`ceterms:credentialType`): Master of Science — `ceterms:MasterDegree` +- **Time to complete** (`ceterms:estimatedDuration`): "62% of graduates finish within 24 Months" +- **Cost** (`ceterms:estimatedCost`): "Tuition per six-month term is $5,035" + "$200" e-books/resources fee = $5,235 per term +- **Credit units** (`ceterms:creditValue`): not stated numerically; "Transfer up to 17 credits (47%) of your MSN courses" implies ~36 total credits +- **Course count**: "Program consists of 15 courses" +- **Admission requirements** (`ceterms:requires` / `ceterms:entryCondition`): "Possess a bachelor of science in nursing degree (BSN)"; "Possess an active, unencumbered RN license" (in state of residence or employment); "must submit to a criminal background check through DISA Healthcare Technology and provide proof of current immunizations" +- **Delivery mode** (`ceterms:deliveryType`): "online nursing education degree program"; "your nursing program includes some requirements—including field experiences—that must be completed in a facility near you" (blended) +- **Learning outcomes / competencies** (`ceterms:teaches`): Inquiry; Advocacy; Adaptability; Curriculum Development; Instructional and Curriculum Design; Leadership. "Competencies for this specialty were derived from the National League for Nursing Nurse Educator standards and the Master's Essentials for Professional Nursing practice." +- **Courses** (`ceterms:hasPart`): Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators in Diverse Environments; Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning; Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education; Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning; Emerging Trends and Challenges in 21st Century Nursing Education; Nursing Education Field Experience; Nursing Education Capstone; Professional Presence and Influence; Essentials of Advanced Nursing Roles and Interprofessional Practice; Quality Outcomes in a Culture of Value-Based Nursing Care; Advanced Pathopharmacological Foundations; Advanced Health Assessment for Patients and Populations; Informatics for Transforming Nursing Care; Leadership and Management in Complex Healthcare Systems; Advancing Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing Practice +- **Career outcomes / occupations** (`ceterms:occupationType`): "Nurse educator, Nursing faculty, Program director, Academic clinical nurse educator" +- **Industries** (`ceterms:industryType`): "Hospitals and healthcare clinics, Colleges and universities, Healthcare networks, Law enforcement and corrections, Hospice providers" +- **Accreditation** (`ceterms:accreditedBy`): "Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education" (CCNE) +- **Embedded credentials** (`ceterms:hasPart`): "NAHQ (National Association for Healthcare Quality) HQ Principles certificate" +- **Transfer / advanced standing** (`ceterms:advancedStandingFrom`): "Transfer up to 17 credits (47%) of your MSN courses taken at the graduate (master's) level at an accredited institution... completed at an accredited MSN program within the past five years with an earned grade of 'B' or higher." +- **Outcome data** (`qdata:`): "Nursing instructors at colleges, universities, or professional schools make over $84,000 on average — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics" + +--- + +# Nursing Education (BSN to MSN) - Master of Science + +## Overview + +### A BSN to MSN Program Built with Busy Nurses in Mind + +Experience is valuable. And your experience as a nurse is what will make you a great nurse educator. A BSN to MSN nursing education program is designed to help you thrive as a nurse educator—giving you crucial skills that will prepare you to train the next generation of nurses, impact patient care, and improve health systems in your community. WGU's online, CCNE-accredited BSN to MSN program will prepare you to teach a new generation of nurses, influence patient outcomes, and change the future of healthcare. + +This BSN to MSN program lets you utilize your knowledge and experience and gives you specific skills you need to take your passion and teach it to others. As a leader you will develop and implement life-saving techniques that will set important standards for the nurses you train. This online nursing education degree program also includes clinical practice experiences that support the student in demonstrating advanced nursing practice competence and curriculum development. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to earn the NAHQ (National Association for Healthcare Quality) HQ Principles certificate along with your degree, helping you to boost your résumé before you even graduate. + +Need to earn your BSN first? No problem! Check out the RN-to-MSN version of this program. + +#### Key Statistics + +- 62% of graduates finish within 24 Months +- Tuition per six-month term is $5,035 +- Transfer credit is accepted for 47% of your coursework (up to 17 credits) + +--- + +## Courses + +### Nursing Education Courses + +Program consists of 15 courses + +At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff. + +The WGU MSN – Education curriculum is evidence-based. Competencies for this specialty were derived from the National League for Nursing Nurse Educator standards and the Master's Essentials for Professional Nursing practice. + +In the MSN core of this online nursing program, you will develop knowledge related to complexities of healthcare, access, quality, and costs for diverse populations. The nurse educator specialization will cover topics like curriculum development, learning styles, assessment, and more. + +This program consists of the following courses, which you will typically complete one at a time as you make your way through your program, working with your Program Mentor each term to build your personalized Degree Plan. You'll work through each course as quickly as you can study and learn the material. As soon as you're ready, you can pass the assessment, complete the course, and move on. This means you can finish as many courses as you're able in a term at no additional cost. + +### Nursing Education Specialty Courses + +**Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators in Diverse Environments** +Examines the multidimensional roles of a contemporary academic nurse educator. This course explores the roles and responsibilities of the nurse educator as a teacher, leader, change agent, and curriculum innovator. Students will also examine the importance of personal and professional development by developing strategies that promote academic integrity, cultural sensitivity, social justice, and ethical/legal values in diverse environments. The course emphasizes the responsibility of nurse educators to utilize communication, collaboration, and leadership in mitigating challenges in academic nursing education. + +**Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning** +Explores how the nurse educator will incorporate authentic experiences into the creation of course plans that facilitate scholarly inquiry, collaboration, and knowledge acquisition in varied educational environments. Emphasis is placed on innovative, transformational, and experiential teaching and learning strategies to facilitate student development of professional, context-based nursing principles, knowledge, skills, and behavior. Prerequisite: Evolving Roles of Nurse Educators in Diverse Environments. + +**Contemporary Curriculum Design and Development in Nursing Education** +Analyzes the concepts of creating curriculum based on national nursing accreditation standards and instructional design best practices. Nurse educator students will create course content that supports learning in diverse, real-world environments where nurse educators facilitate learning. Instructional design strategies for delivering course content will reflect the mission of academic institution programs, contemporary trends in nursing education, and the needs of key stakeholders in nursing education and practice. Prerequisite: Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning. + +**Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning** +Addresses the academic nurse educator's role in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of student achievement outcomes in nursing education programs. This course requires students to integrate best practices from nursing theory and theories of learning to assess student learning in diverse educational settings. Topics include validity, reliability, and practicality of assessments, interpreting item difficulty and discrimination test results, and analyzing student achievement and learning outcomes data. No prerequisites. + +**Emerging Trends and Challenges in 21st Century Nursing Education** +Analyzes the emerging trends, technologies, and challenges that academic nurse educators encounter when facilitating learning in diverse healthcare settings. Students will focus on the necessity of interprofessional collaboration and the barriers and facilitators to overcoming the challenges associated with teaching and learning in nursing. Topics include the impact of emerging technology, challenges in nursing practice, and the role of the academic nurse educator as a scholar and a nursing education policy advocate. No prerequisites. + +**Nursing Education Field Experience** +Provides the academic nurse educator student an opportunity to work collaboratively with academic mentors and interprofessional stakeholders to analyze the need-gap for a curriculum change, innovation, or improvement. Based on the identified need-gap, the graduate student will design and develop a course that reflects evidence-based instructional design and assessment principles and practices. This course prepares students for the role of an Academic Nurse Educator, as an agent for change and quality improvement in nursing education. + +**Nursing Education Capstone** +Provides the Nurse Educator student an opportunity to apply previous course work towards the completion of an evidence-based curriculum proposal project. During this course students will build on previous work during their Nursing Education Field Experience course by planning the implementation and evaluation phases of their proposed curriculum change. The capstone project represents a synthesis of competencies across the Master of Science in Nursing—Nursing Education degree program, which prepares them to lead, manage, and transform nursing education in diverse and complex settings. This course is eligible for an in-progress grade. + +### MSN Core Courses + +**Professional Presence and Influence** +A masters-level course designed to guide students towards an enhanced state of presence, where therapeutic relationships are built between nurse and patient. Students will learn techniques for self-care practices that result in enhanced mental and physical wellbeing and that ensure ethically-generated patient care. Presence is an intrapersonal and interpersonal quality that allows the nurse to relate to others and to be aware of the world around them. The characteristics of presence, which include holism, intimacy, sensitivity and adaptability, create a heightened sense of awareness that fosters therapeutic relationships between the nurse and patient. + +**Essentials of Advanced Nursing Roles and Interprofessional Practice** +Explores essential characteristics of the advanced professional nurse in the role of leader, educator, practitioner, or informatics specialist. In this course, students will apply evidence-based strategies to facilitate interprofessional collaboration on teams. Students will explore the role of nurses in advocating for change at the bedside, as well as leading teams to advocate for health policy reform. Students will gather and analyze data to identify patients and populations at risk and recommend policy change to improve health outcomes in the community. + +**Quality Outcomes in a Culture of Value-Based Nursing Care** +Incorporates current standards of quality and safety within the context of value-based care. In a value-based healthcare system, the benefits are derived from measuring health outcomes against the cost of delivering the outcomes. These benefits are then extended to patients, providers, payers, suppliers, and society as a whole. This course introduces new healthcare delivery models, which stress a team-oriented approach to patient care and sharing of patient data so that care is coordinated, and outcomes can be measured easily. Emphasis is placed on performance and quality improvement methods that underlie value-based nursing care. + +**Advanced Pathopharmacological Foundations** +Provides advanced practice nurses foundational knowledge in the many pathologies encountered in practice today. Advancing from the cellular to the body system level, this course examines the pathologies of common conditions seen in healthcare today. Consideration is also given to the human affective response to alterations in health. No prerequisites. + +**Advanced Health Assessment for Patients and Populations** +Builds on prior physical health assessment knowledge and skills acquired during undergraduate studies by focusing on the advanced assessment of biopsychosocial and sociocultural contexts in patients and populations across the life span. This course emphasizes the use of a comprehensive health promotion, disease prevention, and health restoration model to address health concerns in patients and communities. No prerequisites. + +**Informatics for Transforming Nursing Care** +Integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Students will acquire knowledge and skills to apply informatics concepts, communications, and data that are critical to facilitating interprofessional data-driven decision-making. It is designed to build competence in the use of patient- and population-based applications that inform and support the transformation of nursing care delivery toward a future of value-based quality nursing care that improves health outcomes. + +**Leadership and Management in Complex Healthcare Systems** +Prepares graduate nurses to be thoughtful strategists and informed decision-makers who serve as strong leaders in high-performing healthcare systems. Students develop competencies for managing diverse teams in complex systems, monitoring and measuring organizational performance, allocating financial and human resources, and leading change towards a transformed healthcare system. Additionally, students acquire the knowledge and skills to become full partners with other healthcare professionals. + +**Advancing Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing Practice** +Introduces students to the dynamic union of healthcare innovation and evidence. Core competencies and behaviors required to be a nurse innovator are discussed. Strategies for measuring innovation at various system levels are presented, as well as techniques for synthesizing and disseminating evidence to advance innovation in healthcare. The skills needed to appraise the quality of diverse sources of evidence are presented within the framework of evidence-based practice. + +### Field Experiences + +While most of your coursework will be completed online, your nursing program includes some requirements—including field experiences—that must be completed in a facility near you. + +### Skills For Your Résumé + +As part of this program, you will develop a range of valuable skills that employers are looking for: + +- **Inquiry:** Evaluated the incorporation of evidence-based practice in current nursing activities, ensuring alignment with the latest research and best practices. +- **Advocacy:** Advocated for policies aimed at enhancing public health and advancing the nursing profession, contributing to positive systemic changes. +- **Adaptability:** Provided essential recommendations for improvements in value-based care, aiming to enhance overall patient outcomes and healthcare quality. +- **Curriculum Development:** Implemented diverse instructional strategies to support and expand learning, ensuring a well-rounded and effective educational experience. +- **Instructional and Curriculum Design:** Developed methods for assessing both learning and performance, contributing to ongoing improvement and skill development. +- **Leadership:** Cultivated an inclusive and collaborative team environment that valued the input of all members, fostering diversity and teamwork for enhanced productivity and creativity. + +--- + +## WGU vs. Traditional Universities + +| Aspect | Traditional Universities | WGU | +|--------|-------------------------|-----| +| **Tuition Structure** | Per credit hour | Flat rate per 6-month term | +| **Support** | Schedule and wait days or even weeks to meet with one of many counselors | Simply email or call to connect with your designated Program Mentor who supports you from day one | +| **Exams** | Scheduled time | Whenever you feel ready | +| **Schedule** | Professor led lectures at a certain time and place | Courses available anytime, from anywhere | +| **Time to Finish** | Approximately 2 years, minimal acceleration options | As quickly as you can master the material, can finish programs in 1 year | + +--- + +## Why WGU? + +### Affordability +WGU tuition is charged per six-month term, not per credit. That means if you want to move faster through this online nursing education program, you'll pay less. + +### On Your Schedule +You can continue working at your full-time job or maintaining your responsibilities while pursing your BSN to MSN degree. You don't have to log-in to classes and there aren't due dates. You are in charge of your degree. + +### Alumni Network +When you enroll in the nursing education program at WGU, you join an impressive network of healthcare professionals. + +### Accredited, Respected, Recognized™ +One important measure of a degree's value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master's degree program in nursing, and post-graduate APRN certificate program at WGU are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. + +--- + +## Transfer Credit + +### Transfer Credits Accepted, No Work Requirement + +Now's the time to advance your healthcare career with a master's degree: + +- Transfer up to 17 credits (47%) of your MSN courses taken at the graduate (master's) level at an accredited institution to this WGU degree program. Courses must have been completed at an accredited MSN program within the past five years with an earned grade of "B" or higher. +- There is no RN work requirement. This means you don't need to be currently working as an RN in order to be eligible for admission into our MSN programs. + +**Safety Notice:** +WGU and the Leavitt School of Health are committed to the health, safety, and well-being of all patients, community members, and key stakeholders that interact with WGU students at various clinical/host sites. Standard compliance verification for students in applicable LSH programs is required to protect the public. Compliance items may include, but are not limited to, background checks, immunizations, and drug screens as needed. + +--- + +## Cost & Time + +### An Affordable Nursing Education Degree + +By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree. + +### Tuition Breakdown (Per 6-Month Term) + +- Tuition: $5,035 +- E-Books and Resources Fee: $200 +- **Total: $5,235** + +### A Nursing Master's Degree Is Within Reach + +There is help available to make paying for school possible for you: + +- The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2022 (among those who borrowed) was less than half the national average. +- Most WGU students qualify for financial aid, and WGU is approved for federal financial aid and U.S. veterans benefits. +- Many scholarship opportunities are available. + +--- + +## Flexible Schedule + +### Designed to be Different: An MSN Program Built for a Busy Nurse's Schedule + +Competency-based education puts working nurses in the driver's seat of their education. As a busy nurse, you need a nursing degree program that's more than simply online—you need an online nursing program that truly reflects the realities of your work life and experience. + +At WGU, your progress is driven by your ability to prove what you've learned. How—and how quickly—are largely up to you. Once you've mastered the defined competencies (knowledge and skills), you prove what you know through tests, papers, projects, or other assessments. Demonstrating mastery is how you pass a course, so learning what it takes to be outstanding in your career is at the heart of WGU's MSN – Education curriculum. + +Other universities' online M.S. programs may give you the convenience of distance learning; WGU's competency-based online programs take that flexibility further—many steps further! + +--- + +## Career Outlook + +### Impart Excellence—Train Caregivers in Diverse Settings + +Once you have earned a CCNE-accredited M.S. Nursing – Education degree, you will have the knowledge and skills to be an outstanding nurse educator. You'll be in demand, because you'll be prepared to translate your extensive nursing knowledge into learning opportunities for other nurses. + +BSN to MSN prepared nurse educators teach and train nurses, nursing students, school children, community groups, workers, patients, and consumers. A BSN to MSN can prepare you to make a difference in a wide variety of settings, including: + +- Hospitals. +- Community agencies. +- Schools. +- Industry and businesses. +- Nursing programs. + +### Return on Your Investment + +Many WGU graduates may see an increase in income post-graduation. The average income increase in annual salary versus pre-enrollment salary from all degrees is significant. + +Nursing instructors at colleges, universities, or professional schools make over $84,000 on average, according to recent statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. + +### Real Results for Your Career: An MSN – Education Degree Prepares You to Be a Nurse Educator + +Given the growing nurse educator shortage, earning your MSN with a focus in nursing education is both a rewarding decision and a solid career move. Once you master subjects like curriculum development, instruction and evaluation, and current technology in nursing education, your role in nursing can take on a whole new dimension. WGU has over 3,000 M.S. Nursing – Education alumni with great jobs and satisfying careers. + +#### Job Titles +- Nurse educator +- Nursing faculty +- Program director +- Academic clinical nurse educator + +#### Diverse Industries +- Hospitals and healthcare clinics +- Colleges and universities +- Healthcare networks +- Law enforcement and corrections +- Hospice providers + +#### Major Employers +- Healthcare Corp. of America +- Kaiser-Permanente +- Purdue University +- University of Utah +- Hospice Care of California + +--- + +## Admissions + +### Admission Requirements Unique to This Nursing Degree + +To be considered for this master's in nursing education program, you must: + +- Possess a bachelor of science in nursing degree (BSN). +- Possess an active, unencumbered RN license (though you are not required to be working as an RN at the time of enrollment): + 1. In your state of residence, or + 2. In your state of employment. + +Prior to your clinical placement, you must submit to a criminal background check through DISA Healthcare Technology and provide proof of current immunizations. Additional fees apply. + +**NOTE:** RN licensure in your state of residence or employment is required to successfully complete clinical experiences. You must be licensed in the state in which you will complete the project or clinical experience. Compact licenses must be endorsed by your state of residence. + +### Frequently Asked Questions + +**What is the deadline for transcript submission?** +Transcripts must be received by the 1st of the month before your intended start date. WGU requires that ALL official transcripts of previous academic work completed at other colleges and universities be submitted for evaluation. + +**Can a graduate of this program get into a nurse practitioner certificate or other post-graduate nursing program?** +Admissions requirements vary widely from program to program and from school to school. Nurse practitioner programs—including Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), and post-MSN NP certificate programs—can be among the most competitive. One factor commonly considered for enrollment in post-graduate nursing programs is grade-point average (GPA) from previous college work. The nature of WGU's competency-based model means WGU graduates do not have a GPA when they earn their degree. WGU will work with you to help other institutions understand our model. + +The WGU non-NP MSN courses do not satisfy the requirement for three separate courses in Physical Assessment, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology. These are often referred to as the "3 Ps" and are required for national certification and licensure as a nurse practitioner. + +**How long does it take to go from BSN to MSN?** +It depends on the type of program you choose for your MSN. Traditional programs typically take 2 years, but you may be able to find a competency-based program like WGU that allows you to finish faster. + +**How much does a BSN to MSN cost?** +Typical BSN to MSN programs can cost upwards of $25,000. WGU's BSN to MSN program costs $5,035 per six-month term. And if you finish faster at WGU, you pay less. + +**Is it better to get a BSN or MSN?** +Depending on what you want to do with your career, an MSN can be extremely helpful. While nurses don't technically need a BSN or MSN, many hospitals are wanting BSN trained nurses to help their hospital reach magnet status. And if you are wanting to pursue other career options, such as nurse education, nurse management, becoming a nurse practitioner, etc. you will absolutely need an MSN. + +**Does WGU offer financial aid?** +WGU is approved to offer federal student aid. You will need to apply using the FAFSA, which is used to determine your eligibility for aid. WGU's FAFSA school code is 033394. + +**Are there scholarships available?** +Scholarships are available for new WGU students and returning graduates. Get information on how to apply, eligibility requirements, examples of scholarships, and other financial aid options. + +**How does tuition work at WGU?** +WGU's tuition is a flat rate that is charged every six months. You can take as many courses as you are able in that six-month term—with no extra cost. 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At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to help you show that you know your stuff.

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“The enrollment process was seamless. I talked to a gentleman on the phone, and he told me what I would need. I sent my transcripts in. Within three days they were evaluated. It was a really good process.”

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WGU tuition is charged per six-month term, not per credit. That means if you want to move faster through this online nursing education program, you'll pay less.

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You can continue working at your full-time job or maintaining your responsibilities while pursing your BSN to MSN degree. You don't have to log-in to classes and there aren't due dates. You are in charge of your degree.
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When you enroll in the nursing education program at WGU, you join an impressive network of healthcare professionals.
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One important measure of a degree’s value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. WGU is a pioneer in reinventing higher education for the 21st century, and our quality has been recognized.

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The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master's degree program in nursing, and post-graduate APRN certificate program at WGU are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).

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WGU and the Leavitt School of Health are committed to the health, safety, and well-being of all patients, community members, and key stakeholders that interact with WGU students at various clinical/host sites. Interactions might include direct patient interaction, observation experiences, laboratory experiences, project development, or conducting research.  Standard compliance verification for students in applicable LSH programs is required to protect the public, meet LSH program expectations, reasonably assure compliance with state regulatory board requirements, meet WGU’s contractual and legal obligations with clinical partners, and support WGU’s mission to prepare students who will be qualified to enter their desired field. Compliance items may include, but are not limited to, background checks, immunizations, and drug screens as needed.

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An Affordable Nursing Education Degree

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By charging per term rather than per credit—and empowering students to accelerate through material they know well or learn quickly—WGU helps students control the ultimate cost of their degrees. The faster you complete your program, the less you pay for your degree.

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Designed to be Different: An MSN Program Built for a Busy Nurse’s Schedule

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Competency-based education puts working nurses in the driver’s seat of their education. As a busy nurse, you need a nursing degree program that's more than simply online—you need an online nursing program that truly reflects the realities of your work life and experience.

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At WGU, your progress is driven by your ability to prove what you’ve learned. How—and how quickly—are largely up to you. Once you’ve mastered the defined competencies (knowledge and skills), you prove what you know through tests, papers, projects, or other assessments. Demonstrating mastery is how you pass a course, so learning what it takes to be outstanding in your career is at the heart of WGU’s MSN – Education curriculum.

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Other universities' online M.S. programs may give you the convenience of distance learning; WGU's competency-based online programs take that flexibility further—many steps further!

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Impart Excellence—Train Caregivers in Diverse Settings

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Once you have earned a CCNE-accredited M.S. Nursing – Education degree, you will have the knowledge and skills to be an outstanding nurse educator. You'll be in demand, because you'll be prepared to translate your extensive nursing knowledge into learning opportunities for other nurses.

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Given the growing nurse educator shortage, earning your MSN with a focus in nursing education is both a rewarding decision and a solid career move. Once you master subjects like curriculum development, instruction and evaluation, and current technology in nursing education, your role in nursing can take on a whole new dimension. Our 3,000-plus M.S. Nursing – Education alumni have great jobs and satisfying careers:

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